Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Servers/Hardware. If you’re looking for more information on how all the various pieces fit together, I definitely recommend reading this—it’s worth your time. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner provides a brief reminder that not all USB-C ports are Thunderbolt ports, and updates everyone on the status of bolt (Linux utility for working with Thunderbolt ports and peripherals). For those of us in the IT field, we are definitely living in interesting times. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Thanks to Ivan Pepelnjak, I saw this network diagnostic tool.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I recently mentioned on Twitter that I was considering building out a new Linux PC to replace my aging Mac Pro (it’s a 2012 model, so going on 9 years old). Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. A major security flaw in sudo has been discovered; more details available here.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Servers/Hardware. Definitely worth reading, in my view. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Networking. First up we have the announcement of the release of the NVMe 1.3

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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. Early in a new year is a great time for predictions. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In the process, he muses about the value of configuration management tool chains such as Chef and Puppet in a world of “open switch” platforms such as Cumulus Linux. Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks? Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. This is from July 2017, but still applicable I think: Detectify has a deep dive on access controls for Amazon’s S3 object storage service , which increasingly has been a source of data breaches. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

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. Servers/Hardware. Definitely be sure to give this a look. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. If there is a better definition, please let me know.)

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. x86 marches on! This is interesting.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Brendan Gregg has a pretty detailed write-up on migrating from Solaris to Linux (pertinent given the recent layoff of the majority of the Solaris developers).

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. I definitely recommend reviewing this post and taking action to ensure your Kubernetes deployments are not at risk. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). JJ Asghar provides some direct steps to getting PowerCLI 10+ working on Ubuntu Linux.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Servers/Hardware. This is a pretty in-depth article (to me, at least), but it did help me better understand Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and the role of controllers in Kubernetes. Thomas Graf explains why the Linux kernel community is replacing iptables with BPF. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you. Virtualization.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. 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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. That’s why I’m including these links on using Docker and Google Compute Engine to run a Minecraft server ( part 1 on using GCE and Docker , part 2 on persistent storage with a containerized Minecraft server ).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: Beau and Paulino are two of the five authors of Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things , a new book from no starch press available from Amazon and other fine booksellers. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: Beau and Paulino are two of the five authors of Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things , a new book from no starch press available from Amazon and other fine booksellers. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. Open Network Linux (main website here ; GitHub repo here ) was recently brought to my attention. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Dell Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Servers/Hardware. Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. I hope you find something useful.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

As a strategic investment to further its System z portfolio, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire CSL International. CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. . Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

You’ll definitely want to keep this consideration in mind for your designs. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage. Another thing to consider: vSphere 5.5 PowerCLI 5.5

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In part 2 Larry walks through the node definitions in Vagrant , and in part 3 he reviews the Vagrantfile and turns up the environment. Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Virtualization.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC]. As others have said, an definitely an interesting time to be in technology. Intel CAS operates at the operating system (OS) level, serving as a file-level cache on Windows and a block-level cache (with file awareness) on Linux.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. Great article, and definitely something to keep in mind.

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Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

To me, the leading cause of data loss is usually hardware failure, most often then not, it’s a harddrive failure. Moreover, it’s SHARED with both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. With a plan, you can easily map out your storage needs, and growth.

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Windows Backup Storage Microsoft 87

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 6, 2011

I’ve even seen old useless Linux based laptops, that have support for RDP be instantly turned into a powerful Windows 7 workstation. I'll definitely pay a higher price for that. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). 5/31/2011 7:22 PM.

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