Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. What’s that?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 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. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Just getting started in the networking field?

Storage 111

Storage WAN Vmware Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

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. ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The term “Cloud Management” is nebulous, but typically refers to a distinct set of tasks related to managing the infrastructure level (IaaS) cloud layers, typically comprised of the physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as the cloud orchestration layer – whether inside a corporation or a Service Provider cloud. Firewall rules.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And other hardware. You know, because what we had to do is actually go out physically obtain the data, bring it back to a central location, copy the data across to another drive, process it one by one with a whole bunch of tools and open source solutions, etc, etc. That's a, you know, virtual machine running in a year in Japan.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

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. Servers/Hardware. The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60