Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Operating Systems/Applications. Next is an older article from Patrick Ogenstad that provides an introduction to ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning).

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Erik Hinderer takes a stab (based on his field experience) at estimating how long it takes to upgrade VMware NSX. I thought I also saw a VMware blog post on the provider as well, but couldn’t find any link (guess I was mistaken). Operating Systems/Applications. recently hit 1.0, Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. By now you’ve probably heard about VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which was announced in early February. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

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. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). William Lam has a series of posts on VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS), which at the time of this writing was up to 4 posts in the series.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. Shahidh Muhammad has a review/comparison of various tools aimed at helping developers build and deploy their apps on Kubernetes. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Here’s a three-part series on Helm ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Next week is VMworld in Las Vegas, NV, and I’ll be there live-blogging the keynotes (no sessions though, unfortunately—VMware employees generally can’t get into sessions). No worries, Andreas Wittig has you covered.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the bad guys really started targeting it in a major way. This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Until the 1.3

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ).

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Juan Manuel Rey has a write-up on how easy it is to upgrade VIO (VMware Integrated OpenStack).

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