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. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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). Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

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 ). Operating Systems/Applications. 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

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. 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 Operating Systems/Applications. Cool stuff.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content. The problem is that often the VM management tools aren’t able to scale up to the size of enterprise operations. Problem: Virtual Machine Sprawl. Problem: Troubleshooting.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109