Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). (I think some other vendors might take issue with that claim.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. Tech right now is an exciting place to be,” she says.

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System Automotive Trends Industry 119

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

AUGUST 11, 2016

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Jason Boche published an article describing an issue with VMware Tools and VM snapshots.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Want to install ESXi 5.5

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. I am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie. This looks interesting.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

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. Jon Benedict has three posts (so far) on deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6 ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Just getting started in the networking field? Interesting. Technology Short Take #31.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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). as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Cisco ACI, CloudPassage, Illumio, Unisys, vArmour, VMware NSX, etc.).

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Firewall Network Symantec Data Center 82

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2015

Upon hearing the news that Red Hat had released the Atomic Host variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux , I decided that it would be a good idea for me to take a look at the CentOS flavor of the Atomic Host variant. I verified there was no firewall configuration present that would cause the problem, but the issue persisted.

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

offering advice, analysis and infrastructure "profiling" for enterprises considering using clouds. N Apps manipulating government data, e.g., where laws require direct data oversight Many government databases are required to be maintained within government facilities behind government firewalls. Enterprise Efficiency.

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

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

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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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Need Visio stencils for VMware?

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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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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The need for application management tools is particularly critical when applications go beyond typical single server Web sites into the more complex category of multi-tier enterprise applications. It is implicitly driven by the enterprise shift of moving more and more application workloads to cloud style deployments. Firewall rules.

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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. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

These hosts can be physical servers, firewalls or load balancers. It takes the notion of VMware vApp to another level. I’m just starting to digest the impact of a bare metal switch in the enterprise. My typical use case is an application that has virtual servers that work in conjunction with physical hosts. First, why.

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Dell Load Balancer Virtualization Network 83

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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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

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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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Fountainhead

MAY 18, 2012

Other more sophisticated IT finance tools then allocate those costs to projects and/or organizations across the enterprise, and some even integrate that data into other finance applications (See this Blog by Paulo Prazeres on the topic). VMware IT Finance Manager (Formerly Digital Fuel). Enterprise Efficiency. Ken Oestreich.

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