Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Honestly, I haven’t had a great deal of time to make much progress, but I did come across this article by Sudeep Goyal which helped reinforce some of the basics I already knew. See this article by Dale Coghlan. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we start a new year, here’s a collection of links and articles from around the web. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. For those that may be new to Terraform, Cody Bunch has a great article that describes a simple use case of Terraform with vSphere.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

In the meantime, here’s a few links and articles for your reading pleasure. Kristian Larsson shows how to validate data using YANG. Practical examples like this have really helped me better understand YANG and its relationship to structured data you might exchange with a device or service. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. This is more of a follow-up to one of my own articles than a pointer to someone else’s article.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 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. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Via Matt Oswalt and Michael Bushong, I came across this article on Juniper’s use of P4. Daniel Álvarez has a good article describing some OVN profiling and optimizing he recently performed.

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Architecture Meeting Storage 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

As we start a new year, here’s a collection of links and articles from around the web. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM. Here’s an article on an effort to add Cisco IOS support to NAPALM. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? If you’re using CloudFormation to manage your AWS security groups in an infrastructure-as-code approach, you owe it to yourself to check out this article by Jose Luis Ordiales. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In any case, enough of that—here’s some data center-related content that I hope you find useful! I recommend reading this article, as well as reading the comments. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. Networking.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 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.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Although her article is written specifically for Azure, the underlying concept of being sure to tag resources appropriately is valuable for any cloud provider. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 10, 2013

” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. ” I highly encourage reading this article. You’re also invited to share relevant links or articles in the comments!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. This is an older article (published in May of last year), and it’s a bit on the lengthy side, but I like the tack the author uses.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I’ve tried to find a nice range of articles and links, so here’s hoping I was successful and that you find something useful here. see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. No worries—go read the article.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 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. I could tell you, but I’d rather you go read the article for yourself. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

services brokerages will blur into a conceptual operating system for the ‘Web as a platform’—providing tools to allow users to take advantage of multiple cloud solutions at once, and bringing the cloud closer to the. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Networking.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #38, another installment in my irregularly-published series that collects links and thoughts on data center-related technologies from around the web. This article on Barron’s by Tiernan Ray is a pretty good summary of the announcement and some of its implications. Networking.

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Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Greg Ferro, aka EtherealMind, has a great series of articles on overlay networking (a component technology used in a number of network virtualization solutions).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 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. Have a look at the article for more details. Networking.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #41, the latest in my series of random thoughts, articles, and links from around the Internet. In any case, I liked how this article really hit upon what I personally feel is something many people are overlooking in NFV. This article from June 2013 is pretty helpful.). Networking.

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. This is a pretty in-depth article (to me, at least), but it did help me better understand Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and the role of controllers in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Welcome to Technology Short Take #86, the latest collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web, focused on major data center technology areas. Csilla Bessenyei has a series of articles on step-by-step automation that you might find helpful. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Hardware Devops Network Vmware 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. Some of Anthony Burke’s work here may also be useful; for example, check out his recent article on using Log Insight to assist with achieving microsegmentation. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Network 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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.).

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. If you’re unfamiliar with OVN, Gal Sagie has a couple of articles that might help. Networking.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies. QualiSystems has a series of articles on open networking standards. Dale Coghlan has a few useful NSX-related articles that I recently found. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization 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. It’s a high-level article and doesn’t get into a great level of detail, but does point out some of the key things to consider. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Here’s an article on using PHP to query NSX API via REST (specifically, working with syslog settings on NSX Manager). A couple of articles jumped out at me while compiling this Technology Short Take post. Networking.

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