Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges? Servers/Hardware. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto.

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Galido

MAY 23, 2016

Uranium Backup is an easy-to-use and flexible software to perform hot backups of Hyper-V and VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere virtual machines. From automated live Exchange backups on the network to secure remote MS SQL backups across the Internet, Hyperoo is all you need to SECURE, BACKUP and RESTORE any Windows file, including Hyper-V & VMware!

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Read more about it here.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. I suppose this could go under “Networking”, but it’s really focused on hardware—specifically, the NoviSwitch line of OpenFlow-optimized switches from NoviFlow. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6 Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges? Servers/Hardware. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Servers/Hardware. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a result of their migration, provisioning time was reduced; power savings resulted; and Enel saw significant storage savings. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs. With the idea of hardware acceleration in mind, Jassy introduces an entirely new instance family, the F1 family. Veronese turns the stage back over to Jassy.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Servers/Hardware. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

Every piece of hardware worked perfectly out of the box—wireless, touchpad, touch screen, USB-C/Thunderbolt docking station, etc. Internet applications: Firefox handles my web browsing, but I also have Google Chrome installed for cross-browser testing. I use HexChat for IRC, the Linux Slack client , and Pidgin for instant messaging.

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Linux Report Vmware Travel 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! But enough about me—let’s talk some tech! Networking. Good luck with that.)

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications. Aarna has amassed a total of $3.5

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Networking. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Built on VMWare vCloud Director 5.1 Designed for customers who rely on VMware technologies, Savvis Cloud Data Center streamlines extensions into the cloud with easy-to-use familiar interfaces and tools for scaling performance to their needs.”. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Otherwise, I leave you with this list of links and articles from around the Internet to keep you busy. Servers/Hardware. Via this blog post by Myles Gray, VMware has announced Cloud Native Storage (CNS), powered by a new CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver for Kubernetes (and other orchestration platforms that use CSI).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

VMware Invests $30 Million in Puppet Labs. In the past he’s covered all things Internet Infrastructure, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), mass market hosting, managed hosting, enterprise IT spending trends and M&A. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Puppet Releases Enterprise Automation Tool.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack agains the incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services and VMWare,” writes Bias. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. He writes about a range of topics at DCK, with an emphasis on cloud hosting.

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