Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

backup BC and DR big data Cloud converged convergence Data and Information Management database DCIM Education I/O Networking Infrastructure Resource Management IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics Lab report little data metrics object storage Performance and Capacity perspective post Power and Cooling server Site related ssd Storage and Storage (..)

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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. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some FCSA ssd cache questions and perspectives What […].

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Although it’s not called out in the article, it’s important to note that this is not supported by VMware.). to VMware NSX 6.2.5 John Slack shares some tips and tricks garnered while learning to use Vagrant on Windows 10.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 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 Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration.

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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. VMware recently released version 2.0 Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. 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. Now, it makes a lot more sense to me.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

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. GitHub recently changed their storage architecture, using a Git-based solution called DGit.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

TBD 2017 - Cloud Architecture : Manage the design and plan the implementation of cloud architectures. Technologies covered include Microsoft Windows and Azure, Amazon Web Services, VMware, Linux, Google Docs, Drupal, WordPress, OpenStack, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Chef, and Chef Solo.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2016

For example, you might feel “locked in” to Microsoft (via Office or Windows) or “locked in” to Oracle (via their database platform or applications), or even “locked in” to VMware through vCenter and vSphere. They might have various levels of lock-in, but lock-in exists everywhere: Linux has lock-in. Don’t believe me?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Nigel Poulton attended DockerCon EU and has an article sharing some early thoughts on the state of Docker and Windows containers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. I thought I also saw a VMware blog post on the provider as well, but couldn’t find any link (guess I was mistaken).

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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. Networking. Nothing this time around.

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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. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Andrew Beekhof tackles some issues around the evolving OpenStack HA architecture ; in particular, how and when Pacemaker should be used as more and more OpenStack services become able to operate in active/active configurations. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

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. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Virtualization. environments. environments.

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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.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 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). .” Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ). Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. Interested in some OpenStack inception? What’s that?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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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]. Disclosure: I work for VMware, but was invited to attend IDF at Intel’s expense.). IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 2: [link].

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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. Service registration (and discovery) in a micro-service architecture can be challenging. Technology Short Take #45.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Continuing with the statistics, Johnston shows a very familiar set of numbers stating that 80% of the IT spend is on maintenance (I say familiar because these numbers were also used by VMware—and other vendors, no doubt—in years past). NET applications) and defining the success criteria.

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IBM Applications Programming Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

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. Vormetric interested me because they offer a data encryption product, and I was interested to see how—if at all—they integrated with VMware vSphere. SwiftStack.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Covering vista, Linux, Ubuntu, SQL server, mac os, enterprise, UNIX, open source, AMD, ERP – Techworld.com. Your gateway to the VMware universe. Building Clouds.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Covering vista, Linux, Ubuntu, SQL server, mac os, enterprise, UNIX, open source, AMD, ERP – Techworld.com. Your gateway to the VMware universe. Building Clouds.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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