Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. VMware is not lacking for innovation. But having great tech only gets you in front of the engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

We recently caught up with Aaron Tebbutt, strategic vendor alliance manager, to learn more about iomart, get his thoughts on what it means for the company to be among the prestigious providers to have earned the VMware Cloud Verified distinction, and learn what he sees as the pivotal issues shaping the cloud. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This approach brings widely used enterprise management tools and user interfaces to public cloud environments, enabling consistency of management and smoother data mobility. It offers a unified cloud experience while retaining the flexibility to run workloads separately, optimised for the preferred environment.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We It’s all important.”

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Servers/Hardware. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These solutions compete with traditional compute and storage architectures in both capacity and performance.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . Bare metal virtualization runs virtualization software installed directly on hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Reader Brian Markussen—with whom I had the pleasure to speak at the Danish VMUG in Copenhagen earlier this month—brought to my attention an issue between VMware vSphere’s health check feature and Cisco UCS when using Cisco’s VIC cards. VMware ESX Networking Articles. vSphere Network Health Check and Cisco UCS.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts? All good stuff, thanks Mike!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. 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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Keith Townsend: VMworld session review – NET2207, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Technical Deep Dive. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – VMware vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance INF-SEC1840. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – Securing the Virtual Environment, How to Defend the Enterprise OPS-CSM1209.

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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

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. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Christian Posta talks a bit about some of the challenges of adopting service mesh in enterprise organizations.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. Pat believes that it’s all about the applications, and that enterprise applications are becoming more like consumer applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January). Nick Chapman over at CloudFlux shares his experience working with whitebox switches , and mulls on why the adoption of whitebox switches in the enterprise may be slower than some might expect (or hope). Servers/Hardware. It’s pretty cool stuff.

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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. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges? Thanks Gabe!

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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. If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Closing Thoughts.

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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 ). 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. Networking.

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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. Cloud Computing Network Virtualization NSX VMWare vmworld vSAN'

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Naturally, VDI is a key part of this effort, and Herrod reviews the improvements that VMware made in the last release of View, version 5.1. He specifically calls out IBM as a first-time partner in Europe, and calls out Cisco’s ISR G2+VMware View appliance as an “interesting” approach to lowering acquisition costs.

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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). This looks interesting. Security. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

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

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We may be a long way away from the datacenter vision that VMware calls software defined data center (SDDC) or what Microsoft calls the cloud based data center, but we have arrived at the virtual first data center. The concept of the SDDC is that storage, compute and network are all software enabled abstracts. Visit me on linkedin.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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). J has launched a Patreon page to help drive funding to enable him to create new storage-related content. RIP Solaris.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Exciting times are ahead! Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

AWS is, according to some statistics provided by Jassy, the fastest-growing enterprise IT technology company. As a result of their migration, provisioning time was reduced; power savings resulted; and Enel saw significant storage savings. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs. In 2014, AWS said the cloud was the “new normal.”

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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. emphasis mine).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Although I believe David’s post focuses on Enterprise PKS, it may also apply to NSX-T when integrating with “generic” Kubernetes as well. (I Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Cool stuff. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Christian Elsen (who works in Integration Engineering at VMware) has a nice series of articles going on using OpenStack with vSphere and NSX. you might also find his articles on deploying EMC ViPR , setting up back-end storage for ViPR , or deploying object services with ViPR to also be helpful. Good stuff.

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