Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Networking. This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking. I hope you are able to glean something useful.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Networking. A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. I found this write-up on using OVS port mirroring with Security Onion for intrusion detection and network security monitoring.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Networking. —but I wonder how much cooperation Big Switch will get from the major networking vendors with regards to OpenFlow interoperability now that Big Switch is competing even more directly with them via Switch Light. Just getting started in the networking field? I hope that you find something useful! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. Butler mentions S3 as potential solutions here, and points out the three tiers of object-based storage: S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent Access, and Amazon Glacier. The Storage Gateway’s storage is backed by S3 and offers a standard iSCSI interface.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! This episode is a bit late (sorry about that!), OK, bring on the links!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! This episode is a bit late (sorry about that!), OK, bring on the links!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Networking. Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Networking. I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Bring on the content!

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage. It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Welcome to Technology Short Take #84! This episode is a bit late (sorry about that!), OK, bring on the links!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. First, DPDK provides optimized pass-through support.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Networking. First, we have this post on HiCube, which covers MACVLAN vs. Next, we have a pair of articles by Sreenivas Makam; the first covers MACVLAN and IPVLAN basics , while the second tackles the Docker MACVLAN and IPVLAN network plugins. As always, I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to you. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Networking. 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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #79!

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Examples of hardware virtualization platforms include VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V Operating system-level virtualization : This type of virtualization allows multiple isolated operating systems to run on a single physical server. Both virtual servers can access the same SATA hard drive for storage.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Networking. Ali Al Idrees has a post on using NSX ALB (formerly Avi Networks) with Kubernetes clusters in a vSphere with Tanzu environment. This post provides some examples of shared control planes (and thus shared failure domains) within networking. At least, I hope that’s the case!) ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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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. Networking. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Networking. 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. are affected).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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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. Networking. ” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” I hope you find something useful!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Networking. 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. are affected).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Networking. 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. Servers/Hardware. DVM looks handy. So many new terms!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Networking. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. The NFV discussion seems to be heating up a bit, particularly the “networking” part of NFV. 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!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. The second major area is storage automation. Cloud Computing Virtualization VMWare vmworld'

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” 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.

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