Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! If you work with TextFSM templates (see here for more information), then you might also like this post on writing a vim syntax plugin for TextFSM templates. Katie Gamanji shares some information on passing the CKAD. Networking.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In the event you are seeking more information on NAT hole punching, here you go. I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). Not to mention there’s a great set of links at the end with even more information.). Networking.

Architecture 60

Architecture Operating Systems Applications How To 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. Operating Systems/Applications. Alex Ellis shares some information on how to use kubectl to access your private (Kubernetes) cluster.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Galido

JANUARY 28, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Ultimate Gaming Computer for 2020 - Information Technology Blog. Various motherboard architectures support various generations of processors, and for the AMD Ryzen 3900X, ASUS ROG Crosshair VII Hero is the best suite. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X. Motherboard. The motherboard holds the processor and the GPU.

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Storage Hardware System Operating Systems 105

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it. Cisco Systems recently disclosed a vulnerability affecting more than 300 models of switches; see this Ars Technica article for more details. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Virtualization. Virtualization.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. More information is available here.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. Operating Systems/Applications. Alex Ellis shares some information on how to use kubectl to access your private (Kubernetes) cluster.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware 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 Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out the beginning of the series here. Larry Smith Jr. shows how to take data in CSV and convert it to YAML for consumption by Ansible. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There’s some additional information on the Quantum release on Folsom here. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Operating Systems/Applications. storage enhancements.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s one approach to an informative and useful terminal/prompt configuration. Networking. Both are good articles. Not cool , Wacom. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? According to this article , “It is hard to overstate what a sea change” this sort of architecture will create. It seems to me that the ever-increasing application of persistent storage technologies in lots of difference places is going to change lots and lots of things.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Some good information in here, especially on OpenFlow basics (good for those of you who aren’t familiar with OpenFlow). It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Kenneth Hui, formerly of VCE and now with Rackspace, does a great job of explaining how VMware vSphere fits into the OpenStack Nova architecture in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. I don’t know if Martin coined the terms or not, but you can get more information here and here.) Very good stuff!

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

There’s some really good information in here. Quentin’s post is very detailed, and has lots of good information. Anthony Burke has some information on preparing a node for Kubernetes and the NSX NCP. Operating Systems/Applications. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications. Both articles contain good, albeit somewhat basic, information. (Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.)

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. This course covers the basics of Prometheus, which includes its architecture and components, such as exporters, client libraries, and alerting. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Information on how HyperContainer integrates with Kubernetes to create—you guessed it—“Hypernetes” is found here. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

Also, a quick note that I removed the “Servers/Hardware” and “Storage” sections this time around, as I didn’t have any useful content to share. Along the way, she also provides some additional (useful) information about existing isolation mechanisms. Operating Systems/Applications.

Devops 60

Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. Bogdan Popa educates folks on using ProxyCommand and ProxyJump instead of SSH agent forwarding. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This looks like a handy tool.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Lee Doyle provides an analysis of the market for network virtualization , which includes some introductory information for those who might be unfamiliar with what network virtualization is. I’m testing this in my OpenStack home lab now, and hope to have more information soon. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin. Operating Systems/Applications. This is a much older article on resource management in Docker , but still (as far as I can tell) useful and informative. Kudos to Microsoft and Microsoft’s leadership for quite the culture change.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mohamad Alhussein shares information on how to add a floating static route to an NSX edge via the NSX REST API. Operating Systems/Applications. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. I hope you find something useful here! Networking.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

Otherwise, consider why you are wanting an AWS certification and look over their scopes (and read through the rest of this post) in order to make an informed decision. This certification exam focuses on testing technical expertise around: Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on the AWS platform.

Devops 60

Devops Architecture Web Services Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So, I decided to meet with some vendors that seemed interesting and get some additional information on their products. Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Diablo has created what they call Memory Channel Storage , which puts NAND flash on a DIMM. Jeda Networks.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Full machine virtualization offers greater isolation at the cost of greater overhead, as each virtual machine runs its own full kernel and operating system instance. Containers, on the other hand, generally offer less isolation but lower overhead through sharing certain portions of the host kernel and operating system instance.

Linux 96

Linux Virtualization Operating Systems Architecture 96

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. “The Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. This year, this took the form of “coffee chats”—informal discussions that were, sadly, lacking coffee. Coffee Chats. Closing Thoughts. Thanks for reading! IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. 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). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Students will get hands-on training by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. This course covers the basics of Prometheus, which includes its architecture and components, such as exporters, client libraries, and alerting. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60