Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Thanks to Ivan Pepelnjak, I saw this network diagnostic tool. Servers/Hardware. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). ” If your shop is into OpenStack, you might want to give this tool a look. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Nothing this time around, but stay tuned for something next time. RIP Solaris.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Servers/Hardware. I came across this article that shows Red Hat is allowing Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) to use/leverage OpenStack Neutron networks, thus allowing OpenStack and non-OpenStack workloads to easily communicate with one another. Virtualization.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

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. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Both are great reads.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

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. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Servers/Hardware. A lot of people think tools like Consul are only valuable in “next-generation” microservices-based architectures, but Benny’s article shows how it can add a lot of value in “traditional” architectures. Virtualization.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Sean Daniel

JUNE 29, 2011

I'm wondering if it could be an adapter (hardware) issue. If you go to administration tools, and DNS, you can right click on the DNS server, go to properties, and there is a "forwarders" tab you can add/remove forwarders in here. The remote tool used is VNC viewer. This comment has been removed by the author.

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