Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. At this point, Jim Pinkerton of Microsoft takes over to discuss how Windows Server thinks about this issue and these challenges.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. and it’s due in part to todays announcements by Citrix about Project Avalon , the explosion of the Mobile Enterprise , and the Path to the Cloud. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. I thought you were a Cloud guy?"

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

VDI: Windows application delivery. View is basically a way to deliver Windows desktop environment to any device because just like roaches, Windows is never going anywhere. This is your traditional VDI solution that allows you to deliver Windows application to any device via virtualized desktops residing in the data center.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Applications 49

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Oz looks like it could be quite useful—especially in virtualized/cloud computing environments—but I’m struggling to determine why I should use Oz instead of OS-specific mechanisms (like a kickstart file).

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Virtualization. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Seriously.).

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Assuming this is a fact, what does it mean when eighteen major OpenStack vendors come together to work through the challenges involved with achieving enterprise interoperability? Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Murano (a service for assisting in the deployment of Windows-based services on OpenStack). Inktank Ceph Enterprise. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Inktank Ceph Enterprise will include: Open source Ceph (version 0.67).

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Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

” Primarily this means how to handle Windows-based applications and managing Windows instances (like migrating to new versions of Windows). At 9:23 AM, Daniel Beveridge takes the stage to discuss new ways of addressing Windows-based applications. Virtualization VMware VMworld2012' VMworld EMEA Day 2 Keynote.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Greg Schulz has a decent two-part (well, three part actually, but it’s only the second two that interest me) series on VVols and storage I/O fundamentals ( part 1 and part 2 ). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

So, it’s pretty cool that you’ll be able to run Windows-based containers (via Docker) on Windows Server 2016; here’s an article that discusses using Packer and Vagrant to try it out yourself. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This posts looks at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). I was given the opportunity to do some hands-on testing running different application workloads with a 2U content solution platform along with various Seagate Enterprise 2.5”

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Enterprise Enterprise Applications Storage 40

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.

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Authentication Linux Storage Security 112

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 123

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

Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. With increased use of a virtualization layer, migration tools, shared storage, fat network pipes, and virtual I/O and switching, we are all now realizing that where the executable application code resides is becoming far less important.

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Data Data Center Applications Cloud 218

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 108

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 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. Virtualization. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? on a headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware 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. Virtualization. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Virtualization. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Seriously.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Hacker Earth

JUNE 18, 2023

Remote proctoring capabilities HackerEarth: The chances of a candidate cheating on a HackerEarth technical assessment are virtually zero with our robust AI-powered proctoring features. You must set up safe and dependable systems for data transmission, storage, and access control if you want to guarantee the security of this data.

Tools 62

Tools Data Report Windows 62

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Open vSwitch (OVS) is a core component in a number of prominent virtualization- and cloud-related products and projects (consider that OpenStack Quantum, CloudStack, XenServer, and Nicira NVP all leverage OVS). Wrapping libvirt Virtual Networks Around Open vSwitch Fake Bridges. VLANs with Open vSwitch Fake Bridges.

Linux 117

Linux Virtualization Network Examples 117

The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Microsoft announced its new Windows 365 service yesterday, but the company said it wouldn’t discuss pricing options until the Cloud PCs launch on August 2nd. Now, Microsoft has inadvertently revealed one pricing option, allowing businesses to use a virtual Windows PC in the cloud for $31 per user, per month.

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Windows Microsoft Cloud Virtualization 79

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 62

Fountainhead

APRIL 20, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Virtualization. (31).

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Banking 100

Scott Lowe

JUNE 9, 2014

That passion sustained us over the years, as we progressed from Windows admins to VMware admins and now to virtualization and cloud architects. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Vmware Virtualization Education Storage 64

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Virtualization. It’s kind of funny: I was doing a bit of reading on ZeroVM , a new open source lightweight hypervisor, trying to understand where it fits in the overall virtualization space. See this post by Ben Armstrong on faster live migration in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 (which is now generally available ).

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

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. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private network (VPN) solution to connect back to our employers’ corporate networks in order to get work done.

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Network Linux System Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

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). Virtualization. If you’re new to NSX or looking for an overview, this might be helpful. This seems like a really nice approach.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. One of these is BoxCryptor, who offers an application for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android that performs client-side encryption. Interoperability Macintosh Security Storage Encryption OSS' All courteous comments are welcome!

Open Source 128

Open Source Storage Security Guidelines 128

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 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

JANUARY 13, 2014

Close all the window and eject (unmount) the downloaded.DMG file. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. .” Double-click on Contents, then MacOS. In the MacOS file, copy the synergys and synergyc files to a different location.

Storage 62

Storage Windows Virtualization Examples 62

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Aurora shall be known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. To learn more about Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials , download the datasheet. SBS7 shall be known as Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard. To learn more about Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard , download the datasheet.

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Small Business Windows SMB Backup 43