Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Chart Museum, an open source Helm chart repository server, also recently released an update. OpenTracing and Jaeger (Jaeger is an open source implementation of the specifications created by OpenTracing) are next up for Rice to review, and she shares that deploying Jaeger has gotten easier via the Jaeger Operator.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2013

Of course, there are blogs that go for months between posts, so a small gap of a couple weeks isn’t really a big deal. I’m also exploring new posts on Puppet, Open vSwitch (OVS), OpenFlow, and—who knows—maybe VMware will have some snazzy announcements at VMworld that will give me new fodder for posts.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Readers can, of course, extrapolate from the concepts presented here to include other development environments. If you’re not familiar with VCF, see here.). This is kind of cool.

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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. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. This would include products like VMware VSAN as well as projects like Ceph and others.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Of course, Big Switch recently moved to “diversify,” if you will, away from just Floodlight with the introduction of Switch Light. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Interesting.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. 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. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

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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.). This also ties in nicely with my new job role at Nicira/VMware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

In my original 2013 project list , I said that I was going to focus on RHEL and RHEL variants, but over the course of the year ended up focusing more on Debian and Ubuntu instead (due to more up-to-date packages and closer alignment with OpenStack). There’s always room to grow, of course. Grade: B (above average).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. VMware is not alone in being driven by financial reasons.

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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. It’s obvious I haven’t paid a great deal of attention to the storage space recently.).

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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. Granted, I’m not an expert with some of the open source tools mentioned, so I could be wrong. Can we even support multi-tenancy? Do we have to fall back to using VLANs?

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