Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Linux Report Vmware Travel 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Lucas Pardue and Christopher Wood share a primer on proxies. Ivan Pepelnjak talks about the 1.2.1 Web views in macOS?

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

iPad hardware. Finally, the same hardware means that the iPad has the same support for the Apple Pencil — the first-generation $99 Apple Pencil, I should point out, with its weird Lightning charging connector and easy-to-lose cap. But the most important spec in the iPad is the storage on the base $329 model: an embarrassingly low 32GB.

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Apple Storage Hardware Windows 127

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. RegEx tester. Enough said. Virtualization.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. RegEx tester. Enough said. Virtualization.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 144

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. Although Rowan doesn’t specifically mention it, this command relies on tools like tr , sort , and uniq , so I’m guessing it will only work on OS X/Linux/*BSD systems. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. I’m a 1Password user (just wish they’d release a “real” Linux client and bring back support for local vaults to all platforms), so seeing this article on how Agile Bits (the company behind 1Password) is using Terraform with AWS was pretty cool. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Windows and WMI performance counters. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Networking. First up we have the announcement of the release of the NVMe 1.3

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

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. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Macintosh iPhone Linux'

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Enough said. Virtualization.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Alpine Linux 3.5 Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel! was recently released.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today you can get a $200 laptop and get useful functions and hardware like an HD display, Windows 10, HDMI port, a decent hard drive, and sometimes even touch screen. Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. Asus E402SA. You can find an Asus E402SA for as low as $179.

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Dell Intel HP Internet 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Then you may find this list of tips for Linux performance on Hyper-V to be useful. What’s that? See here.).

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images). What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Maybe next time?

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. x86 marches on! See more details here. Check this out.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. If I ever get my hands on a Windows 10 box (I’m seriously considering adding a Windows 10 box to my home office setup), I’m going to try this process. Flatcar Linux is a “friendly fork” of Container Linux (of CoreOS). Still, the idea is pretty cool.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 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. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges?

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

NCTA Cloud Operations that helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Mark Church from Docker provides an update on Windows containers with Docker and Kubernetes , specifically calling out the support for Windows node as of the Kubernetes 1.14 configurations. Nothing this time.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server. on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

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