Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Your IT estate has the potential to afford developer teams more flexibility and agility to place workloads across on-premises systems, public and private clouds, colocation facilities and edge networks. Not to mention the systems supporting workloads deployed as a result of fulfilling ad-hoc requests from various business lines.

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Cloud Agile Dell Applications 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management I’ve long been a fan of Velero, the application formerly known as Heptio Ark. It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. More details on the exploit are available here.

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. ” Who will be correct? I guess we will just have to wait and see. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ). VMware: A Strategy Expanding from Enterprise to Public.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. to version 8.0.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro tears into the “wasting disk space” argument against the Flatpak application package format. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

While his post specifically addresses the AWS CDK, I think that some of his conclusions could also be applicable to other “infrastructure-as- actual -code” tools like Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Scary stuff!

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good. Servers/Hardware. or higher).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications. One, the content is useful in and of itself. Here you go.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications. Tiago Sousa writes about Amplemarket’s use of Pulumi to deal with growing pains. Daniel Karnutsch shares an ideal Azure Kubernetes Cluster configuration.

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Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. This post reminds me that I need to write up the procedure I followed to get the Prometheus Operator scraping metrics from a TLS-secured etcd cluster bootstrapped using kubeadm.). Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

VMware recently released an updated to PowerCLI (version 6.5.3), and with it comes a set of cmdlets that provide low-level access to the NSX-T REST API. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

This could be bad—a wormable vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code by exploiting potentially any Windows application protocol that provides authentication, including (potentially) SMTP or HTTP. Operating Systems/Applications. Get more details in this article. Virtualization.

Network 74

Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

William Lam shares some information on using kube-vip with VMware’s new Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola. Want to use the Kong API Gateway with Knative? Chris Evans attempts to define hybrid cloud and multi-cloud.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?), Operating Systems/Applications. Time will tell.

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Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It will be available next year, and will come in a “native AWS” flavor as well as a VMware flavor (see William Lam’s post for more details on the VMware flavor). Operating Systems/Applications. For those of us in the IT field, we are definitely living in interesting times.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Cormac Hogan shares some lessons learned using a Kubernetes Operator to query vSphere resources. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Mark Ukotic has some information on using Kubernetes pipelines and tasks in VMware Code Stream. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #137! Networking.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

When collecting requirements for an application, we compile a list of functional requirements to determine the best OS platform. Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. Virtualization Citrix Hyper-V KVM VMWare'

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Operating Systems/Applications. Curious about what a JWT is?

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Here’s a three-part series on running VMware NSX on vSphere on AWS via Ravello Systems ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. Networking.

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