Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Your mileage may vary, of course. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Part 1 is available here.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to a particular Linux distribution. Of course, I’m not an expert, so I could be wrong. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS' Inktank Ceph Enterprise.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I don’t have any specific goals in mind for this project, although that is something I’ll be evaluating over the course of the year (I do agree that clear goals—something I didn’t establish last year—can help with progress.). Reinforce base Linux knowledge. This will be partly tied to #2.

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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. Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. There are some good (naturally), and also some bad (of course).

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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). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

The program is comprised of three courses: Cloud Technologies, Cloud Operations, and Cloud Architecture. In these courses, students will learn concepts, principles, techniques, and practices needed to administer and secure a modern cloud-enabled business environment.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce base Linux knowledge: I’ve been suggesting to VMUG attendees that they needed to learn Linux, as it’s popping up all over the place in all sorts of roles. There’s always room to grow, of course. Continue using Puppet for automation. So, how did I do?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Container technologies ( Docker , most notably, but also CoreOS and etcd ); recommends this Docker course. Docker course: [link]. List of Resources.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. David Holder has a post on using Terraform to create a highly available, cross-AZ etcd cluster. Phoummala Schmitt talks about the importance of tags with cloud resources. I don’t have any links to share this time, sorry!

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 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. Erik’s figures are just estimates, of course; actual values will be determined based on each customer’s specific environment. Here’s a look at using govc to manage vSphere from the Linux command line.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Noorali starts out with a quick introduction/overview of Helm, likening it to yum or apt for Linux packages. Moving into storage, Rice mentions Rook, which as of September moved from the Sandbox into the CNCF Incubator. Sinha does point about that these projects are not limited to GKE, of course.). Rice moves on to Linkerd 2.0,

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Open Source Vmware Architecture Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Container technologies ( Docker , most notably, but also CoreOS and etcd ); recommends this Docker course. Docker course: [link]. List of Resources.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In this post, I’m going to discuss how to use the popular command line utility curl to interact with a couple of RESTful APIs—specifically, the OpenStack APIs and the VMware NSX API. Example 2: Authenticating to VMware NSX. VMware NSX is one example. VMware NSX controllers only listen on HTTPS (not HTTP).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Then you may find this list of tips for Linux performance on Hyper-V to be useful. Virtualization. environments.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Both of these are definitely worth reading if you want a bit more detail on how one of VMware’s newest technologies, VSAN, is going to impact the end-user computing (EUC) space. This is an older post from April 2013, but still useful, I think.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2012

This behavior is, of course, configurable.) Because of these default behaviors, users in VMware environments simply connect multiple links to their hosts and off they go. The use of a different Linux distribution and/or a different version of OVS might make this process slightly different. Other environments behave differently.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

CloudMASTER® training and certification is comprised of three courses with exams: NCTA Cloud Technologies that provide an overview of cloud computing that will help you develop a deep understanding of the models and understand the landscape of technologies used in the cloud and those employed by users of cloud services.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2013

On OS X or Linux, this installs with the OS; on Windows, you’ll need a client like PuTTY. Your mileage may vary, of course. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. VMware Weak Spot. Linux Virtualization CLI KVM SSH' A VNC client.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

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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. Of course, I’m sure there are trade-offs each way. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Ignore Microsoft and Hyper-V at your own risk… Frank Denneman takes a quick look at using user-defined NetIOC network resource pools to isolate and protect IP-based storage traffic from within the guest (i.e.,

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. App Firewall? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. App Firewall? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

Following on the heels of this week’s VMware NSX announcement at VMworld 2013, I had someone contact me about a statement this person had heard. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Networking Virtualization IPSec Linux VPN'

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