Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Aside from a Windows VM I maintain for the occasional thing I can’t do effectively on Linux or OS X, I haven’t worked with Windows in any significant capacity in quite a while.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

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). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 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. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. RegEx tester. Enough said.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Windows and WMI performance counters. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. Flow and Packet analyzer.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 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. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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 69

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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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

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. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? Virtualization. environments.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

I firmly believe that the future of “infrastructure engineers”—that is, folks who today are focused on managing servers, hypervisors, VM, storage, networks, and firewalls—lies in becoming the “full-stack engineer,” someone who has knowledge and skills across multiple areas, including automation/orchestration. Let’s do that right now.

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Tools Windows Applications Firewall 60

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 3, 2012

I have an iPad (v1), a Laptop, and of course my Windows Home Server. I found an application for Windows (and Mac OS) that installs on your computer that shares almost any printer connected to the computer, to the AirPrint service. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Blog Description.

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How To Windows Small Business SMB 64

Galido

JANUARY 8, 2020

How much storage for backups do they provide? Ensure that your host specializes in custom firewalls for your CMS if you are using one, and updates web server scripts and systems regularly. Identify whether or not you need support for particular scripts or Windows applications and other special software.

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Backup Policies Security Firewall 114

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. as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Identify whether or not you need support for particular scripts or Windows applications and other special software. How much storage for backups do they provide? Ensure that your host specializes in custom firewalls for your CMS if you are using one, and updates web server scripts and systems regularly. Enhanced Security.

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Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

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. I plan to do a more in-depth write-up on HexaTier soon, after I’ve had a bit of time to do more research. Angel Villar Garea also has a post on the same topic.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Sean Daniel

JULY 1, 2010

Lifehacker also provides both Windows 7 and MAC UI and instructions. Labels: Security , Training and Awareness , Windows 7 , Windows Vista. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Windows 7. (47). Windows 8. (4). Windows Vista.

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Network How To SMB Windows 48

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Yup, we give you a standard HP model with Windows XP, Office 2007 and Anti-Virus loaded on it. All of a sudden it’s “HELLO Mr. CIO” – the iPhone explodes on the scene, then it’s the iPad, and soon it will be the Windows Phone 7 and Android phones and the RIM Playbook and the Samsung Galaxy. And every employee wants to use their own.

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Malware Transportation Data Center Windows 44

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

So after elevating a previous to it, we could conduct a more extensive recon and on the Jupyter Notebook environment So after conducting more thorough recon on the Jupyter Notebook environment, we found out that the Jupyter Notebook had some local firewall rules restricting network access. Why might that be the case?

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Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

MAY 15, 2013

I’ve written before about adding an extra layer of network security to your Macintosh by leveraging the BSD-level ipfw firewall, in addition to the standard GUI firewall and additional third-party firewalls (like Little Snitch ). The robust pf firewall should now be running on your OS X Mountain Lion system.

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Firewall Resources Linux Security 117

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Galido

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

You can also utilize virtual appliances, which are termed as virtual machines on which you have installed intrusion prevention/detection solution, software firewall or other function on your azure vnet. Let us assume that your virtual machine runs Windows 2012 R2 server. This azure vnet becomes your internal network’s extension.

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Virtualization Microsoft Firewall Network 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

” This term refers to a type of data storage device that can be written only once but read many times. The term “worm” was first used in the 1970s to describe early forms of optical storage media that used lasers to etch data onto the surface of a disk.

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System Malware Firewall Operating Systems 36

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

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. This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). DVM looks handy.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), Fathi paints containers as “having been around for years,” including pointing to a feature in Windows Data Center Server 15 years ago. Poonen and Colbert turn the stage over to Raghu Raghuram, who heads up VMware’s SDDC efforts.

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

” This term refers to a type of data storage device that can be written only once but read many times. The term “worm” was first used in the 1970s to describe early forms of optical storage media that used lasers to etch data onto the surface of a disk.

System 28

System Malware Firewall Operating Systems 28

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. Poonen shows a video with a few customer testimonials, and then introduces Jim Alkove, Corporate VP in charge of enterprise management and security for Windows at Microsoft.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Neowin has a quick recap of what’s new in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 , if you’re interested in seeing what’s happening on that front. I haven’t had a chance to read it all, but it seems pretty comprehensive.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Sean Daniel

JUNE 29, 2011

Post idea courtesy of Robert Pearman, MVP] If you’ve used Windows Small Business Server in the past, you’ve probably figured out exactly how DNS works. I changed Windows Update to not install automatically so that I can try to monitor this and delete the entry after a reboots. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. 9/23/2011 3:55 PM.

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Small Business LAN Windows IPv6 58

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enable Archiving with Azure Blob Storage. Create a Windows EC2 Instance and Connect using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Install Apache Web Server and Perform the Initial Firewall Configuration. Initial Firewall Configuration. Working with Essential Red Hat Linux System Administration Tools – Storage (VDO).

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Linux Systems Administration Cloud Google 16