Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Check this out.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. I hope it proves useful! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac).

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

The only major things missing from their "Starter Kit" suite they offer are the addition of VMware - not cheap if you choose to purchase it - as well as the addition of a blade (or two) to serve as controllers of the system. A little comparison chart (at right) shows what an IT shop might have to do to accomplish a list of typical functions.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.) Why is this important?

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