Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. “This is the power of software”, according to Carl. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community).

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Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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. It sounds pretty handy if you’re a combined VMware-Puppet shop.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Naturally, given that the product was only announced today, these are very early thoughts.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. with Alkira: Using a third-party platform to handle the abstraction of networking into a software service would vastly reduce the complexity for his own IT team.

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CTO Network Cloud Data Center 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. The issue lies with VMware Tools, apparently; see Jason’s post for full details.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. PRTG is network software that monitors your entire infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and alerts you to problems before users even realize it. The software offers a hierarchical structure of device views with options to group similar sensors.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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 am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie. This looks interesting.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A software application has numerous moving parts, which, if not effectively maintained, will definitely affect the final quality and end user experience. It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

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. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Johnson next transitions into a discussion of VF failover using NIC teaming software.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Network World

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Software is eating the world. Cryptzone, Google BeyondTrust, Vidder, etc.)

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Firewall Network Symantec Data Center 82

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

However, certain environments are inherently bound to hardware and/or tested for performance, and these may need to remain "in-house" on specific hardware (see below) Inherent application functionality N Apps that are inherently "internal" Such as internal back-up software, "edge" applications like printer servers, etc. Ken Oestreich.

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 28, 2016

After that talk Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, takes the stage. This naturally leads Gelsinger into a discussion of hybrid environments, including both private and public cloud, and the vision of the software-defined data center (SDDC). Gelsinger next brings Guido Appenzeller, CTSO of Networking and Security at VMware.

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Vmware Dell Cloud IBM 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. In this case, it’s on validating HW VTEP deployment for integration with NSX.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

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. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). What about iOS and Android devices?

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

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. The VM is given its own operating system and resources, but they are all contained within the host computer.

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Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

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Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. The big VMware launch event was on February 2, and among the announcements was vSphere 6.0.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). I’ve long struggled with the idea of using VXLAN to extend a software based overlay to individual ports on a physical switch. First, why.

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Dell Load Balancer Virtualization Network 83

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I must disagree with some of his statements regarding what software-defined networking is and is not and where it fits , written back in April. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I must disagree with some of his statements regarding what software-defined networking is and is not and where it fits , written back in April. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

HP 61

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Fountainhead

MAY 18, 2012

Nicus Software - (Salem, VA) Provides enterprise-wide IT financial management application used for IT chargeback, cost visibility, budgeting and forecasting. From Uptime Software. VMware IT Finance Manager (Formerly Digital Fuel). Newvem does this by combining powerful data analytics of cloud usage. Web Services). Ken Oestreich.

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Financial Survey Budget Data Center 173