Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Teri Radichel draws some connections between recent events in the Ukraine and cybersecurity. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization. Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Linux Academy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Hi, I’m Anna, COO of Linux Academy. Anthony is out on some much-needed vacation, but that’s not going to stop us from updating you on everything new in this Linux Academy Monthly Update. Here are some of the most recent quizzes you can use to check out the updates: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS . CompTIA Linux Plus XK0-004.

Linux 13

Linux Disaster Recovery Course Firewall 13

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

I heard a lot of questions targeted to this exact area at a recent event I attended in Washington, D.C., Docker is the next leap past virtualization, employing self-contained Linux kernels that can be shared across components, sparing the Linux host and making better use of client IT resources — which drives cost effectiveness.

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Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

This snippet of Puppet code will take care of configuring apt to use a local Apt-Cacher-NG instance: (In the event the code block above isn’t shown, you can also see it here.). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Linux Automation Puppet Ubuntu'

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Linux Storage Cloud Virtualization 70

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 18, 2014

This was an important step in educating myself on Linux, KVM, libvirt, and Open vSwitch (OVS), all of which are critical core components in most installations of OpenStack. The only consistency appeared to be with Ubuntu, as virtually (no pun intended) all my KVM guests were running Ubuntu. Linux Virtualization KVM'

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Linux Virtualization Dell Education 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

The result of years of consolidation, the sprawling facility was the home of more than 40 networks, different virtualization platforms and hypervisor levels, nearly 10,000 virtual machines, 585 servers, and a massive collection of legacy software. The team also had to address the very old versions of Linux and Oracle still in use.

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Software Software Vmware Data Center 88

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! Also see the link to the newer article the author wrote as a follow-up.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

Scott Lowe

JULY 15, 2013

All in all, it looks to be quite an interesting event. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. General Linux Automation Puppet' If you’re interested in going to PuppetConf 2013, then you might be in luck. PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway.

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Conference Linux Devops Travel 63

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Our free cloud training allows students to begin developing their Linux and Cloud skills. Visit the Linux Academy Booth at Black Hat or find Ell at any of the other Hacker Summer Camp events! How to Get a Linux Job. This course dives into LXC (Linux Containers) and its container manager, LXD. Become a Master.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 12

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

In the event you accidentally locked yourself out of vCenter using NSX’s distributed firewall, this post by Roie Ben Haim provides a workaround for getting yourself out of this pickle. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. Extensive event logging. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. PRTG offers different types of notifications such as email, push notifications, SMS, event log, syslog, SNMP trap, execute action/program, ticket assignment, sound alarm and more. Application monitoring. Web monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Mikhail Shilkov provides a great overview of Azure Durable Functions and how they fit into the bigger picture of microservices architectures, serverless platforms, and event-driven models. Virtualization. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. And in the event you’re not really familiar with the various autoscaling aspects of Kubernetes (of which cluster autoscaling is just one), this article by Mohamed Ahmed provides a 101-level overview. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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. Greg Schulz—who normally tends to focus on storage-related topics—has a post providing an overview of the Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” release.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

In any event, here you are—I hope you find something useful for you! VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Virtualization. Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing. Go check out part 2.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Open Virtual Network (OVN) here before, as I’m pretty jazzed about the work going on with this project.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

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

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

For storage-intensive workloads, AWS Customers will have an opportunity to use smaller instance sizes and still meet EBS-optimized instance performance requirements, thereby saving costs. an AWS DeepRacer event. Please reach out to us on the Linux Academy Community slack with: . What Linux Academy can do to better serve you.

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Linux Open Source Programming Data 19

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This post is a bit older, but still useful in the event if you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and OpenFlow controllers. 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. NixOS seems to be an interesting re-think of a Linux distribution.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere?

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

This is especially true in areas like auditing and security incident event management (SIEM). The other components required to make this work will either be delivered in Folsom (where changes in the scheduler are available) or already in the Linux kernel (like the tboot functionality/support). RSA, are you listening?).

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. CTOvision is very proud to be a media sponsor of the 4th annual Cloudera Federal Forum. Eddie Garcia. Audie Hittle. He likes shiny objects. Webster Mudge.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Big Data 150

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. By Bob Gourley. Register here. Here are the details: Interact with your colleagues at the 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum. Eddie Garcia. Audie Hittle.

Program Management 150

Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2013

They do this by managing all Open vSwitch (OVS) devices and enforcing consistency between the logical network view (which is defined via the northbound NVP API) and the transport network view as implemented by the programmable edge virtual switches. And pretty familiar if you’ve used Linux before.). Easy, right?

Network 77

Network Transportation Architecture Virtualization 77

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

In the event you’ve joined this series mid-way, here’s what I’ve covered thus far: In part 1, I provided a high-level overview of NVP/NSX and its core components. And pretty familiar if you’ve used Linux before.). Networking Virtualization Neutron NSX NVP OpenStack VMware' Easy, right?

Transportation 60

Transportation Network Vmware Virtualization 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. Cloud Computing » IBM. By: John Rath July 12th, 2013.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Virtualization. can support up to 1.5

Virtualization 102

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Events Calendar. Virtualization. Networking.

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Events Calendar. Virtualization. Host Europe Acquired for $667 Million.

Data Center 188

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Events Calendar.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Erik Smith at EMC has published a series of articles on “virtual storage networks.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). GitHub recently changed their storage architecture, using a Git-based solution called DGit. Virtualization. Ubuntu 16.04 The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60