TM Forum

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Open Digital Architecture. General architecture and approach. General architecture and approach. VMWare providing the virtual infrastructure management VIM. The Catalyst leverages TM Forum’s. including for production implementation guidelines and the. Business Process Framework (eTOM. ). for 5G network slicing.

Network 130

Network B2B Virtualization Quality Assurance 130

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

Hardware 143

Hardware Budget Data Security 143

Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

Vmware 93

Vmware Storage Big Data Architecture 93

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We We provide scalable ICT services in accordance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud computing reference architecture for business applications,” says Jaap Jansma, manager at ODC-Noord.

Data Center 52

Data Center Government Vmware Data 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As a result, the move toward multi-cloud architectures to serve agency missions is a central part of federal IT modernization, as the Pentagon’s recent $9 billion multi-cloud contract award to Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and Amazon clearly demonstrates. As a long-term supplier to the U.S.

Government 59

Government Cloud Vmware Security 59

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Featuring Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can help enable confidential computing across multiple clouds and edges, improving the isolation of sensitive data with hardware-based memory protections.

Cloud 127

Cloud Dell Intel Agile 127

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? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion.

Vmware 78

Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. One key difference to keep in mind is that this solution is delivered by Microsoft (not VMware); with VMware Cloud on AWS, the solution is delivered by VMware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

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. Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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. Kyle Ruddy helps folks get started with the Desired State Configuration Resources (DSCR) for VMware , a new way of using PowerShell DSC with VMware vSphere environments.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67. Networking. Is it necessary?

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

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. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These solutions compete with traditional compute and storage architectures in both capacity and performance. VMware’s VSAN solution scales up to 4.4PB of storage and two million IOPS.

Storage 80

Storage Hardware Architecture Enterprise 80

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 30, 2013

VMware equates network virtualization to Server Virtualization. It streamlines server deployments because you can now deploy servers based on templates with almost no regard to the underlying hardware. I re-read the VMware post announcing the NSX product and it all kind of just clicked for me. Source VMware.

Virtualization 81

Virtualization Network Vmware Firewall 81

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Adrian Hornsby has a series (two parts so far) on designing a multi-region active-active architecture. The focus of this series seems to be more on application architecture than infrastructure architecture, although there are clear overlaps in areas. VMware PowerCLI 10.0 is now available.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. The series provides an introduction and overview of licensing (part 1), a review of architecture and hardware recommendations (part 2), an overview of data availability (part 3), and a discussion of fault domains (part 4).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. After all can’t you use SDDC architecture to build a private cloud? Software-defined dependency on the hardware layer. Bring the discussion back to private cloud; private cloud is a service, as opposed to technical architecture.

Data Center 74

Data Center Software Software Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Expo Floor. Closing Thoughts.

Intel 60

Intel Data Center Hardware Vmware 60

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The following are a collection of odd’s and end’s devices and tools for hardware and software defining your environment. How about attaching a M2 form factor flash SSD card to a server or device that does not have an M2 port, or, for mirroring two M2 cards together with a RAID adapter?

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Software Intel 40

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Servers/Hardware. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). This looks interesting. Security. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. Servers/Hardware. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. Networking.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. After all can’t you use SDDC architecture to build a private cloud? Software-defined dependency on the hardware layer. Bring the discussion back to private cloud; private cloud is a service, as opposed to technical architecture.

Data Center 64

Data Center Software Software Cloud 64

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. x86 marches on! If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. emphasis mine).

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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). Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Virtualization. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Servers/Hardware. The future of VMware Fusion—and VMware Workstation—as a result of recent VMware layoffs is a topic I leave others to discuss.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK contains data plane libraries, optimized NIC poll mode drivers, a runtime environment, a new queuing environment for the Linux kernel, and an Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) that automatically optimizes for various Intel architectures (Atom, Core, Xeon).

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

On the topic of advances in storage, Dell Technologies recently announced updates to its storage portfolio , including the fastest-ramping architecture in the company’s 38-year history. Data analytics is the key to unlocking the most value you can extract from data across your organization.

Storage 93

Storage Research System Dell 93

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90