Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following rss feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Also on the Sysdig blog, Miguel Hernández recaps his KubeCon EU 2022 talk on how attackers used an exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters. Virtualization. Networking. This is pretty neat.

Linux 90

Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Linux Open Source Windows Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Announced on the eve of the AWS re:invent conference Monday night, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances represent an unexpected expansion beyond Linux and Windows for AWS. AWS re:Invent, normally held in Las Vegas for one week each year, is taking place virtually this year, live-streamed from the Amazon campus in Seattle and spanning three weeks.

Web Services 119

Web Services Apple Development Cloud 119

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Check out this blog post on the AWS re:Invent announcement , and take a look at Weave’s blog post on their involvement. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. should keep blogging. Enjoy the content! Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Virtualization. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. John Nicholson talks about the Virtual SAN (VSAN) performance service , available in VSAN 6.2. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Virtualization.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Check out Mark Russinovich’s blog post on SONiC , then pop over to Kamala Subramaniam’s more in-depth SONiC post. Servers/Hardware. Here’s the Docker blog post talking about the performance study. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2.

Linux 60

Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Tech Websites 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following RSS feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Both were good sessions. The XL710 also supports offloads for VXLAN and NVGRE.) That’s cool.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Virtualization. (Seriously.). Teri Radichel draws some connections between recent events in the Ukraine and cybersecurity.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced).

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Virtualization. It provides the basics behind X.509v3

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

I was sure I had mentioned Skydive before, but apparently not (a grep of all my blog posts found nothing), so let me rectify that first. Servers/Hardware. I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor - Information Technology Blog. Monitoring of virtual servers. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Application monitoring. Web monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Servers/Hardware. Seriously.). Here’s one idea.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner provides a brief reminder that not all USB-C ports are Thunderbolt ports, and updates everyone on the status of bolt (Linux utility for working with Thunderbolt ports and peripherals). Virtualization. Matt Oswalt shares some details on how NRE Labs implements “curriculum-as-code.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60