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! See more details here. Want to run Hyper-V in your OpenStack environment?

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

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.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

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!

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Erik Hinderer takes a stab (based on his field experience) at estimating how long it takes to upgrade VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The CPU architecture flaw involving speculative execution has been garnering a great deal of attention (see here , here , here , and here ). OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive!

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. 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. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product?

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Using 1 GbE would have required too many ports, too many cables, and too many switches; 10 GbE offered Expedient a 23% reduction in cables and ports, a 14% reduction in infrastructure costs, and offered a significant bandwidth improvement (compared to the previous 1 GbE architecture). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. For me, the key takeaway was that you need to carefully examine the architecture of your application(s) in order to understand where serverless (function-as-a-service) is the best fit. This tool exports the DFW configuration and then converts it into Excel format, and is available on GitHub. What’s that? See here.).

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Welcome to the September and October Server StorageIO Update Newsletter covering IT and Data Infrastructure spanning hardware, software, cloud, managed and software defined data infrastructure topics. The post September and October 2016 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Software Cloud 40

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. An Ubuntu userspace and Bash shell running on Windows , eh? This almost entices me to try Windows again. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time! Almost—but not quite.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. A lot of people think tools like Consul are only valuable in “next-generation” microservices-based architectures, but Benny’s article shows how it can add a lot of value in “traditional” architectures. Ben Armstrong explains the reasons behind two Hyper-V PowerShell modules in Windows 10.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud: [link]. Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design: [link]. Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC].

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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Also along those lines—perhaps you’re a VMware administrator who wants to branch into networking with NSX, or you’re a networking guru who needs to learn more about how this NSX stuff works. Servers/Hardware. Service registration (and discovery) in a micro-service architecture can be challenging.

Storage 60

Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ophir Harpaz and Peleg Hadar join The Hacker Mind to discuss their journey from designing a custom fuzzer to identifying a critical vulnerability within Hyper-V and how their new research tool, hAFL1, can benefit others looking to secure other cloud architectures. Peleg: If you take a look of the windows. At least I did.

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Research Virtualization Microsoft Cloud 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

If so, that could make the virtual office a more pleasant sight than the blurred backgrounds and disembodied heads we see in Teams today — and prompt a wave of hardware refreshes to support the additional graphics workload. Dell and VMware to split up. Lansweeper acquires UMAknow. Qualcomm buys server chip designer to make laptops.

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Enterprise Enterprise Oracle SAP 143