Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see 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. storage enhancements. Networking.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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Vmware Cloud IBM Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Lennart Koopmann provides a guide to Yubikey authentication in the real world. There are some notable caveats for this alpha support (CSI drivers only, same storage class, same namespace), but all these are laid out in Griffith’s article. Mischa Buijs reviews using a SATADOM boot device with VMware ESXi. Kubernetes 1.15

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6 available here ), and has updated VMware vRealize Configuration Manager to support assessing containerized environments against this benchmark. This list of VMware and Vagrant performance hacks is quite handy.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Chris Hein shows how to use the Heptio Authenticator with kops to link Kubernetes cluster authentication to AWS IAM. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe Duffy takes the wraps off Pulumi , which looks very interesting. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ClusterScope is a handy tool for finding outdated images in your Kubernetes cluster. Nothing this time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

LTS, KVM hypervisors, and VMware NSX for networking. In this case, Docker Machine rewrites the contents of /etc/default/docker , adding (among other things) --storage-driver aufs. Only by removing --storage-driver aufs (and thus reverting to the Device Mapper driver) was I able to make the Docker daemon run as expected.

Engineering 60

Engineering Applications Cloud Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Robert Guske has a three-part series on running Linux development desktops with VMware Horizon ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Storage This is a good (albeit slightly dated) overview of EBS volume types. ffmpeg is such a useful tool (prompted by this article ). Wonder no longer.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Mike Foley recently published a two-part series on two factor authentication (2FA) for vSphere ( part 1 is here ; part 2 is here ). VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Virtualization.

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