Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. 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). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Gabrie van Zanten shows how to add the Fusion IO driver to VMware AutoDeploy in this write-up.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Servers/Hardware. Might be worth checking out. Docker Making Its Move.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Rick Scherer (EMC) Duncan Epping (VMware), William Lam (VMware), Scotte Lowe (VMware), Vaughn Steward (NetApp). You still need enterprise hardware. NSX is just decoupling the management functionality from the hardware. Question: Can the vSAN mirror to split to say a Linux server? Question: vSphere 5.5

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). I asked the question earlier how does NSX bring value to the enterprise. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Servers/Hardware. If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1 Networking. It starts here.

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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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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). Show Notes. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Macintosh iPhone Linux' Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS. Apple on Intel.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. Servers/Hardware. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Now, on to the content! Networking. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Gabrie van Zanten shows how to add the Fusion IO driver to VMware AutoDeploy in this write-up.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Servers/Hardware. The folks over at Cloudify recently did a survey on the state of “enterprise multi-cloud”; the report is available here (doesn’t appear to be behind a paywall/regwall).

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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). Servers/Hardware. x86 marches on! You can get more details from the Netronome press release.

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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). Show Notes. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Servers/Hardware. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). x that involves booting on a Linux CD. This looks interesting.

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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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Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well. Thats a huge shift from only a year ago - Dell finally has an enterprise-grade, mission-critical level-of-reliability offering for virtual, physical, or mixed applications.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. It’s important to note that these security enhancements don’t really represent “net new” functionality but rather reflect existing Linux security constructs now being exposed and usable by Docker. By now you’ve probably heard about VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which was announced in early February.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies. You can learn more on various topics including cloud, enterprise, hacking, mobile, and more.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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. This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies. You can learn more on various topics including cloud, enterprise, hacking, mobile, and more.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies. You can learn more on various topics including cloud, enterprise, hacking, mobile, and more.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies. You can learn more on various topics including cloud, enterprise, hacking, mobile, and more.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies. You can learn more on various topics including cloud, enterprise, hacking, mobile, and more.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Then again, what do I know?

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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?” Servers/Hardware. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy! Aye aye, Popeye!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Servers/Hardware. Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. Need Visio stencils for VMware? In vSphere 5.1,

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. ” RELATED POSTS: Pivotal Launches Enterprise PaaS, Receives $105 Million From GE.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware. Tom has since moved on to CSC (via the vCHS team at VMware) and has launched a “next-generation” version of Razor called Hanlon. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.) Why is this important?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Speaking of Puppet and hardware, I also saw a mention on Twitter about a Puppet module that will manage the configuration of a NetApp filer. Now, you can also automate UCS with Chef.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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