Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This article discusses the virtual machine introspection (VMI) functionality introduced in XenServer 7 while illustrating the value of hypervisor-based security controls. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Virtualization. Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The company also announced a new entry-level iPad during its recent “California Streaming” event , which comes outfitted with a new front-facing camera, a faster processor, and double the base storage. Greater storage capacity, with base storage starting at 64GB. It even offers double the storage for the same price.

Storage 56

Storage Apple Video Sports 56

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. This post is from 2012, but is—to me—still as applicable today as ever.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. The article explains a few orchestration concepts (like liveness probes and readiness probes in Kubernetes), but mostly focuses on the need for fine-grained health checks in applications.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Operating Systems/Applications. Megan O’Keefe shares a Kubernetes developer workflow for macOS that includes a list of applications, themes, tools, and shortcuts. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. This article on another reason your Docker containers may be slow was an excellent reminder that containerization is not equal to virtualization (that doesn’t make it better or worse, just different), and therefore can’t be treated the same. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ? Networking.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Operating Systems/Applications. One of the announcements at DockerCon ‘16 was the Distributed Application Bundle (DAB), a way to package up multiple containers. Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Martin Fowler has a good article that lays it out pretty clearly.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. This is a pretty interesting use case for Docker.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko).

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko).

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The base model starts at $2,039 and includes a Core i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 14-inch 1920 x 1200 screen. that includes a Core i7-1185G7, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 2560 x 1600 touch display. You can go all the way up to a $3,309 model with the same processor and screen but 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.

Dell 60

Dell Comparison Windows Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Marcos Hernandez (a colleague on the NSX team at VMware) recently pointed out this Heat template for a multi-tier application with dynamic routing (via Quagga). Operating Systems/Applications. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Virtualization. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This is an older post (more than 2 years old), but as far as I can tell the concepts are still quite applicable. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Eben Freeman shows how to integrate Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb for detailed application statistics. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One may be within a Tier-I data center with a relatively low response rate requirement and allowing users only 500MB of storage per mailbox. Virtualization. (31). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 113

Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. OpenStack is a platform that’s designed from the ground up to provide and infrastructure to software developers to build Cloud aware applications.

Vmware 69

Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2013

Florian makes the “dreaded Linux-OpenStack comparison,” combining it with models and charts from Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm.” ” Florian goes to another quote from Moore stating that applications have an advantage over platforms when it comes to crossing the chasm.

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Enterprise Enterprise HP Linux 99

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko).

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I enjoy Michael Hausenblas’ “appops reloaded” posts, which are similar to my Tech Short Takes but more tightly focused on cloud-native stuff. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2014

Given that Docker is targeted at application deployment, then I felt that using Heat was a more appropriate way of leveraging Docker in an OpenStack environment as opposed to treating Docker as a form of a hypervisor. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

Virtualization 71

Virtualization Linux Network Fashion 71

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Virtualization. I guess it’s not really fair of me to make this statement, given that kube-spawn is focused on local Kubernetes clusters for testing and development. It does seem, though, that Kubernetes deployment tools abound.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. Build in Applications Apple’s Mail client is beautiful, and makes doing email fun.

Apple 53

Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

.” A digit-computer is capable of performing mathematical operations and logical comparisons on digital information using a combination of hardware and software. They are used in a wide variety of applications, from personal computers and smartphones to large-scale data centers and scientific simulations.

Artificial Intelligence 61

Artificial Intelligence Applications Industry Transportation 61

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s kind of like having a virtual assistant that you can talk to and ask questions. Once you have implemented the program, provide a brief explanation of your design choices and any considerations you made for error handling and data storage. Le Chat isn’t just a one-size-fits-all solution either.

Programming 69

Programming Banking Microsoft Video 69

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. Virtualization. Marcin Cuber discusses process and considerations for upgrading EKS to version 1.19. Need to list assets across multiple cloud providers?

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Operating Systems/Applications. million IOPS.

Virtualization 102

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

.” A digit-computer is capable of performing mathematical operations and logical comparisons on digital information using a combination of hardware and software. They are used in a wide variety of applications, from personal computers and smartphones to large-scale data centers and scientific simulations.

Artificial Intelligence 41

Artificial Intelligence Applications Industry Transportation 41

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. Virtualization. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long.

Open Source 52

Open Source Tools Security Software 52