Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

CTOvision

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I am using Amazon Linux. Also note that Amazon Linux includes a lot of package dependencies (i.e. Also note that Amazon Linux includes a lot of package dependencies (i.e. I won't walk you through the entire process, but select security and storage options that meet your needs. Windows: Cygwin, OS X: Terminal).

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Linux Data Examples Storage 245

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to a particular Linux distribution. Murano (a service for assisting in the deployment of Windows-based services on OpenStack). Inktank Ceph Enterprise.

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Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others. The ability to access and control a computer using any operating system that supports VNC, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

MAY 2, 2013

Apparently, by copying the keytab file from a Windows KDC (an Active Directory domain controller), the keytab is considered “foreign” because it doesn’t have the right security context. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Thanks Tomas!

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Authentication Linux Storage Security 117

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In reality, OVS relies on the routing functionality that’s built into the Linux kernel, as you’ll see, and doesn’t perform the routing functionality itself (as far as I have been able to determine).</aside> Enable IP routing in the Linux kernel. Enabling IP Forwarding in the Linux Kernel. ip_forward=1.

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Linux Virtualization Network Examples 123

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images). What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post. Virtualization. Here’s a quick write-up on running VMs with VirtualBox 4.3 LTS server.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a configuration example.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Using a Linux Environment. It’s no secret that I use OS X, and the toolchain that the OpenStack documentation team uses is—like the rest of OpenStack—pretty heavily biased toward Linux. It wasn’t until just recently that I realized: why not just use a Linux VM? on Amazon EC2 (via Ravello Systems).

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Tools Linux Open Source Cloud 67

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. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking. Might be worth checking out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. The drivers for a Cloud provider selecting a Cloud management platform are different from an Enterprise selecting a Cloud manager. So, it is a consideration but we are just looking at traditional enterprise public Clouds on this post.

Vmware 69

Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. This workaround might also work for Linux and other BSD-derived systems; I haven’t tested it there yet. I don’t know of any similar functionality for Windows.).

Network 61

Network Linux System Windows 61

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

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. Much ado was made about the Microsoft-Docker announcement a while back regarding the availability of Docker on Windows.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a configuration example.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? How’s this for Technology Short Take inception—in TST #70 , I mentioned the Cumulus topology converter.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments. By the way, have you heard about Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration ? If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read. See more details here. Want to run Hyper-V in your OpenStack environment?

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. 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 gives them very fine-grained control over data access.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2013

On OS X or Linux, this installs with the OS; on Windows, you’ll need a client like PuTTY. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Linux Virtualization CLI KVM SSH' Here are the tools you’ll need to make this work: An SSH client.

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Linux Virtualization Vmware System 65

Galido

MAY 18, 2017

Fortunately, SQL Server 2017 is going to be the primary version to run on both Linux and Windows. Python integration within SQL Server is not limited to, enterprise editions, but also will be available in the free-to-use Express edition. The latest version also maintains Docker containers. Python power comes to SQL Server 2017.

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Microsoft Training Artificial Intelligence Engineering 60

Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Before I joined Microsoft, I spent countless hours with my roommates with Windows NT4 server, Proxy Server, and more software, trying to share an Internet connection with my room mates. Posted by Sean Daniel. at 4:39 PM.

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Small Business SMB Windows Microsoft 78

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

See this post by Ben Armstrong on faster live migration in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 (which is now generally available ). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I reserve the right to revise my view in the future.). Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS?

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows. Hand shows a Windows 8-based 8" tablet from Dell, the start of a new family of products that will be branded Venue. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. What’s next after Bay Trail?

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

Amazon Web Services describes the ideal candidate as having: Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services. Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS. Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise.

Devops 60

Devops Architecture Web Services Applications 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Why I plan on using the new Windows Home Server 2011. I’m sure you have heard by now, that the Release Candidate of the new Windows Home Server 2011 is available for download. open standard for compatible streaming, you can stream to your XBOX 360, Playstation 3, DLNA capable TV, iPad (with application), Windows 7 PC (or slate!)

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Windows Backup Storage Microsoft 87

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Just think how much all them licences would have cost any other company running 1 million+ Windows servers! Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Colocation.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. This isn’t as straightforward as building a Linux image (no surprises there), but I did find a few good articles that helped along the way. PowerCLI 5.5

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

We have a chapter on threat modeling, so that researchers will know the potential harms that they could cause we have a chapter on an IoT methodology, so that they can have tried proven mechanisms to conduct security research, and we've got a chapter that talks about how to defend organizations defend enterprises, from their IoT.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

We have a chapter on threat modeling, so that researchers will know the potential harms that they could cause we have a chapter on an IoT methodology, so that they can have tried proven mechanisms to conduct security research, and we've got a chapter that talks about how to defend organizations defend enterprises, from their IoT.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) DVM looks handy.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012? Until the 1.3

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although these posts are storage-related, the real focus is on how the storage stack is implemented in a virtualization solution, which is why I’m putting them in this section. Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ).

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The storage aspect of Docker isn’t typically discussed in a lot of detail, other than perhaps focusing on the need for persistent storage via Docker volumes. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Well…read this post for all the gory details.

Storage 60

Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. App Firewall?

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106