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

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking.

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

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center IT Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Servers/Hardware. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). Welcome to Technology Short Take #46.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Servers/Hardware. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Now, on to the content! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Servers/Hardware. This article gives an overview and brief introduction to eBPF. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. Connecting Docker containers to Open vSwitch is one thing, but what about using Docker containers to run Open vSwitch in userspace?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center IT Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

In this episode, I’ve gathered an odd collection of links and articles about key data center technologies. Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Without further ado, let’s get to the content. Networking. Sorry, Charlie!

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies. Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Servers/Hardware. Networking. Running vSphere 6? You’re done.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. VMware recently announced VSAN 6.2 , and along with the new release is plenty of coverage from the VMware community. Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. In any case, enough with the introduction—bring on the content! I hope you find something useful.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. ” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” The speaker is Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam, a Principal Engineer in the Intel Data Center Group. Orchestration (OpenStack, VMware). Management.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware'

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate.

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Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? “For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack agains the incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services and VMWare,” writes Bias. Modular Data Centers.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Don’t companies have the same issue for data centers on-premise? We are focusing first on leveraging AI and generative AI capabilities within existing SaaS tools and only then explore proprietary or open-source AI accelerators or models,” the CIO says. “We

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

As usual, I gathered an odd collection of links and articles from around the web on key data center technologies and trends. Couple something like GoBGP with IPVLAN L3 (see Brent’s article ) and you’ve got a new model for your data center network. Servers/Hardware. via VMware Photon OS TP2. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful. Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Networking. It’s about time.)

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Networking. Nothing this time around.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million. MainOne has just opened its fourth data center, in Lagos. Dell and VMware to split up.

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