Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. 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. Virtualization. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. Or virtualized firewalls?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. Johnson shows that the E5 processor provides higher throughput at lower CPU usage with VMDq compared to a Xeon 5500 CPU (tests were done using an Intel X520 with VMware ESXi 5.0).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware. Similar Posts: IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 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. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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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. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

According to Poonen, the core of the solution for “any application on any device” is VMware’s Workspace Suite. Workspace Suite creates the magic of “enterprise computing with consumer simplicity.” He recaps the announcements and re-iterates the key message: “enterprise security with consumer simplicity”.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. The second major area is storage automation. Cloud Computing Virtualization VMWare vmworld'

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? 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. Venky explains it in this post. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? 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. Venky explains it in this post. Virtualization.

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