Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Looking for some Docker and Kubernetes resources?

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

IPv6 support. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Extensive event logging. Monitoring without agents. Flexible Alerts. Various user interfaces. Failover Cluster: fault tolerance. Distributed monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk. Sam McGeown discusses deploying ECMP with NSX for a provider logical router.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

This should probably go in the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Management” section, but the boundaries between areas are getting more and more blurry every day. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 via VMware Photon OS TP2.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need a “cheat sheet,” so to speak, for VMware’s cloud-native applications initiatives? Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here! Networking.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60