Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Servers/Hardware. I’ll try to correct that for the next one. Have fun reading! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Have a look at the article for more details.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. This is a slightly older article by Mitch Beaumont that I’ve had sitting in the hopper for a while. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Servers/Hardware. I found this article on SELinux concepts for humans to be quite helpful. The project’s GitHub repository is here , and documentation for Skydive is here. What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Servers/Hardware. Now, on to the content!

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Closing Thoughts.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Both articles are useful, IMHO, especially considering that MACVLAN is no longer experimental as of the Docker 1.12 Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Late last week, Cyrus Durgin from Luminus Networks published an article on SDx Central titled “The (R)evolution of Network Operations.” You may notice that my name is mentioned at the bottom of the article as someone who provided feedback. Whitebox/britebox hardware with Linux-based NOSes.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! PowerNSX in a container? Feeling geeky?

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration. This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. This article is pretty high-level; I wish it had a bit more depth to it. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. It tells me that some skills—specifically, Linux, automation/configuration management, software development concepts—are going to be essential for all new IT pros in the near future.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

For almost eight years (Technology Short Take #1 was published in August 2010), I’ve been collecting and sharing links and articles from around the web related to major data center technologies. Ben Piper shares an example of automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible. Time really flies when you’re having fun! Good luck!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Any thoughts?

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” Both Seacliff Trail (ONP Switch) and Sunrise Trail (ONP Server) will evolve over time as rack-scale architecture (RSA) matures and evolves as well.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Servers/Hardware. VCE—er, or is it EMC Converged Platforms Division?—recently

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I found this article by Diane Patton at Cumulus Networks talking about container network designs. Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ).

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. While I’m talking about the overlay/underlay model, I found this article by Tom Nolle discussing how using the overlay/underlay model could enable agile infrastructure. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Nothing this time around.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Servers/Hardware. Federacy recently published an article about the results of their Docker image vulnerability research. Networking.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.”

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Servers/Hardware. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. It’s been a while since my last Technology Short Take (almost three months!); my apologies for that.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link].

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. If you’re not familiar with OVN, this is a good post with which to start.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. I tend not to link to TechTarget posts any more than I have to, because invariably the articles end up going behind a login requirement just to read them. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

.” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. This leads Eul into a discussion of the Intel Silvermont core: built with 22nm Tri-Gate transistors, multi-core architecture, 64-bit support, and a wide dynamic power operating range.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2018

Let’s start by determining the name of the SSH keypair you’d like to inject into the instance (this is assuming you’re launching a Linux-based instance). If you aren’t familiar with jq , see this article.) Name=architecture, Values=x86_64. The basic format for AWS CLI commands looks something like aws.

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Groups Security Architecture Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Bhandaru takes over to provide an overview of the OpenStack architecture. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. General Linux Networking Storage Virtualization Hardware IDF2013 OpenStack'

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. BEST IT BLOGS Directory. Arstechnica. Help Net Security.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

This time I’m including two of his articles. Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Both are great reads.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Website and Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. BEST IT BLOGS Directory. Arstechnica.

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