Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules. Moreover, Ansible comes in handy with aspects that other tools leave gaps in, such as zero-stop and continuous updates for multitier applications across the infrastructure.

Tools 94

Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

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). Intel VT-c actually provides a couple of different ways to work in virtualized environments.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Oz looks like it could be quite useful—especially in virtualized/cloud computing environments—but I’m struggling to determine why I should use Oz instead of OS-specific mechanisms (like a kickstart file).

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. In this case, the customer had Active Directory, a file server, and a bunch of Windows-based desktops connecting back to the file server for data access. At the core of the networking solution is Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. 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. Monitoring of operating time and periods of inactivity (uptime /downtime). Application monitoring. Web monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

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. Virtualization. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product?

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

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. I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Virtualization. What’s that? Check it out on GitHub.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

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).

Vmware 65

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

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. Virtualization. on an Apple Xserve 3,1.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” 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.

HP 106

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” 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.

HP 61

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61