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. Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Alice Goldfuss’ article on how to get into SRE is also worth reading, in my opinion, even if you aren’t interested in SRE specifically.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. Chris Young shares some details on a little side project he did to show how to use the Arista eAPI to do dynamic VLAN assignment based on MAC address. Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. How about some icons for vRA/vCAC ? Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

(Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

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. Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Giuliano Bertello shares why it’s important to RTFM; or, how he fixed an issue with a Cross-vCenter NSX 6.2 Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. In talking with customers, I find that one of the things that really challenges their thinking is how to best utilize security groups to their maximum effect. Operating Systems/Applications. Read more about it here. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you this time.

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0,

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Tony Mackay has a tutorial showing how to use Traefik to rate-limit requests to a WordPress instance. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. How about an OCI runtime for FreeBSD Jails ? Jan Grzegorowski shares how to remap a single Mac keyboard key using hidutil. Networking. Check out cloudlist.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s a beautiful piece of hardware, and a novel take on mobile computing. Hardware: This is a sleek, high-quality device. Some have reported issues with hardware discoloration and cracking around the USB-C port; I haven’t run into those issue on my device.). But it’s a very promising device. Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. The hardware is, admittedly, crowded, and you’re going to want to rework some keybindings sooner or later, but it all works better than I expected it would. For comparison’s sake.

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Hardware Linux Operating Systems Software 97

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Lars Kellogg-Stedman shows you how in this post on multiple external networks with a single L3 agent.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The article shows you how to build a Cumulus VX lab on Ravello Systems. A follow-up blog post talks about how to use OVS on Hyper-V outside of an OpenStack context. Servers/Hardware. Juan Manuel Rey has a write-up on how easy it is to upgrade VIO (VMware Integrated OpenStack). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

Depending on your inquiry or request, the response will likely contain not just information but also links or directives on how to use this information to perform certain actions. model, the bot would respond: “ As of my last update in September 2021, the latest Android operating system was Android 12. ”

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Microsoft Training Applications Travel 36

Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even now, it’s the example in the definition of a monopolization on the FTC’s website , which details how Microsoft used its monopoly on computer operating systems to exclude and harm competitors — especially the nascent web browser market. Microsoft is careful about what it does and how its actions could be perceived.

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Microsoft Company Windows Internet 85