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. Operating Systems/Applications. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. See part 1 and part 2 for the full details. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple and VMware…or Xen? The only constant is change.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. 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). Operating Systems/Applications. This looks interesting. Very good stuff!

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

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. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications. 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.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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). Operating Systems/Applications. and LXC at 2.0.4;

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m paraphrasing for dramatic effect.)

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Christian Elsen (who works in Integration Engineering at VMware) has a nice series of articles going on using OpenStack with vSphere and NSX. Maish Saidel-Keesing (one of my co-authors on the first edition of VMware vSphere Design and also a super-sharp guy) recently wrote an article on how adoption of OpenStack will slow the adoption of SDN.

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Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. Here’s one idea. Servers/Hardware. Thanks Gabe!

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Now, on to the content! Networking. Perhaps this article can help. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

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 David Holder walks readers through the steps for bootstrapping Prometheus, Grafana, and AlertManager in Enterprise PKS (Kubernetes) clusters. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

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). .” Operating Systems/Applications. You can get more details from the Netronome press release.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This gives me a total of eight servers, and the plan is to use them to build an internal OpenStack cloud running Ubuntu 12.04, KVM, Open vSwitch (OVS), and—ultimately—VMware NSX. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Getting Hiera Working.

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Cloud Linux Dell Vmware 70

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

By now you’ve probably heard about VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which was announced in early February. First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

VMware has a similar offering via the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service recovery-as-a-service offering. The portability of orchestration resources is one of several aspects you’ll want to examine as you progress down the route of fully embracing a cloud computing operational model. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 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. If there is a better definition, please let me know.)

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. 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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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. By offloading data storage and optimizing the network, the DPU frees the CPU power for mission-critical applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Networking. Good post, Nick.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the bad guys really started targeting it in a major way. This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. DVM looks handy.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Operating Systems/Applications. 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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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Winston Bumpus of VMware’s Office of the CTO has more information in this post. The tool has recently been updated to help fix issues as well. Read here for more information.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 115

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage. Update 1 upgrade that results in missing storage providers. ” Classic! PowerCLI 5.5

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

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.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Virtualization. Technology Short Take #30.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Also along those lines—perhaps you’re a VMware administrator who wants to branch into networking with NSX, or you’re a networking guru who needs to learn more about how this NSX stuff works. Operating Systems/Applications. See here , here , and here for a breakdown of the SGX design objectives.

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 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. No longer will the storage team be able to just focus on storage issues.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Virtualization.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Virtualization.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61