Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. If you’re interested in learning more about some of the new security features in vSphere 6.5, check out this post by Mike Foley—he has pointers to more details on VM Encryption, Secure Boot, and Encrypted vMotion. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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). Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 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. Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. You’re welcome.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Security Jeff Warren discusses a potential way for malicious players to bypass multi-factor authentication, aka the “Pass the Cookie” attack. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it.

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? Servers/Hardware. Ubuntu 16.04

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. Networking.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

So we have far less users for Mac and Linux than we have on Windows. Vamosi: Most antivirus products are found on Windows, much less so on Mac and Linux. ipv6 is designed to overcome the problems of ipv4 address exhaustion. So it would be very, very hard to scan for all the ipv6 addresses.

Internet 52

Internet Malware Research Linux 52