Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 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. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

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.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). No, I mean I really am kidding—don’t read stuff over the holidays.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Servers/Hardware. RegEx tester. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Servers/Hardware. RegEx tester. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere). PaaS/container orchestration ( Mesos / Mesosphere , OpenShift , Docker Swarm, Kubernetes ).

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Servers/Hardware. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 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. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere). PaaS/container orchestration ( Mesos / Mesosphere , OpenShift , Docker Swarm, Kubernetes ).

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. Cormac Hogan recently started spending some time with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and shared some of the initial “lessons learned” on this post about “adventures in VIO.” You’re done. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

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.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. Lior Kamrat has an article on securing Azure Container Registry for CI/CD pipelines using Azure service principals. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Greg Schulz—who normally tends to focus on storage-related topics—has a post providing an overview of the Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” release.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). .” I found this pair of articles on DevOps in straight English to be helpful. Virtualization.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Good stuff here! Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. The big VMware launch event was on February 2, and among the announcements was vSphere 6.0. Networking. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60