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 Operating Systems/Applications. Readers can, of course, extrapolate from the concepts presented here to include other development environments. This is kind of cool.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 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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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments. Virtualization. This event looks interesting.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. 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.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. recently hit 1.0, Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Operating Systems/Applications. 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

MARCH 2, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Of course, the idea of a “DevOps” role is a topic unto itself, but I’ll leave that for some future article.). That’s handy. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V?

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. DVM looks handy.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Winston Bumpus of VMware’s Office of the CTO has more information in this post. Of course, the real question is how long it will be before vendors add support for OVF 2.0,

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Of course, I’m sure there are trade-offs each way. I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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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. Courteous comments are always welcome! Thoughts on a Couple of Books.

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