Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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). and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Open Virtual Network (OVN) here before, as I’m pretty jazzed about the work going on with this project.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. IPv6 support. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Bandwidth monitoring using SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, packet sniffing. Application monitoring. Web monitoring. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Flexible Alerts.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 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, 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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This is a liveblog of the OpenStack Summit Sydney session titled “IPv6 Primer for Deployments”, led by Trent Lloyd from Canonical. IPv6 is a topic with which I know I need to get more familiar, so attending this session seemed like a reasonable approach. IPv6 also has some special addresses. x 10 to the 38th power).

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Examples Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Alberto Pellitteri with Sysdig discusses SCARLETEEL , an operation conducted by an attacker that leveraged many of the tools found in modern cloud environments: Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

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. Jason Anderson has a nice post on using SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) to expose Docker containers.

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. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

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? Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60