Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a great way.

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. Virtualization. Networking.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer 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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. IPv6 support. 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). Environmental monitoring. Extensive event logging.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

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. Virtualization. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 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. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada.

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. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 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 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Virtualization.

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you’re just getting started with OpenStack, one of the first books you buy should be OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook , and one of the first things you should do after you buy the book is set up the lab.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60