Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. What’s that? That’s handy.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

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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. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Yes, I know that security and privacy are different, but this seems like a reasonable place to put this article by J Metz on pseudo-anonymous e-mail.

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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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #66! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” If you’re looking for a cost-effective home lab setup, you might check out this article on a $500 vCloud Suite lab. I highly recommend this article. Networking.

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