Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Nothing this time around!

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration. Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

As someone who used a Switch Lite for a couple of years, though, I actually think Ayn’s hardware is better. The only real complaint I have about this hardware is the goofy Odin logo underneath the D-pad. I’ve been testing the $287 Odin Pro, which has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.

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Hardware Storage Google Video 92

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0 Virtualization.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Nothing this time around (sorry!).

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Servers/Hardware. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. Technology Short Take #44.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 Servers/Hardware. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Mark Peek talks about Dispatch , the open source serverless framework VMware recently released.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Servers/Hardware. I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Mounting guest disk images on the host? Virtualization.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. It’s kind of funny: I was doing a bit of reading on ZeroVM , a new open source lightweight hypervisor, trying to understand where it fits in the overall virtualization space. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS?

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Servers/Hardware. Thomas Maurer has a nice post on first steps with Windows Containers. Hyper-V on Nano in Windows Server 2016 TP3? Or how about Nano from Windows Server 2016 TP3 as a Hyper-V guest?

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Servers/Hardware. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Dataconomy

APRIL 24, 2024

Ollama, a free, open-source tool, enables the operation of various large language models, such as Llama 3, on personal computers, even those with limited capabilities. It utilizes llama.cpp, an open-source library that optimizes the performance of LLMs on local machines with minimal hardware demands.

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How To Artificial Intelligence Open Source Operating Systems 45

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Just think how much all them licences would have cost any other company running 1 million+ Windows servers!

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Michael Dales shares his experience trying out Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a Linux development environment. Chin-Fah Heoh has a write-up from Storage Field Day 19 about a range of open source projects and initiatives related to storage. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

In any case, I can see some very useful cases for subnet pools, particularly in conjunction with tenant networks that use “routable” IPs and don’t use source NAT on the logical router(s). Servers/Hardware. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 Maybe next time!

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Servers/Hardware. 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). Networking.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Nigel Poulton attended DockerCon EU and has an article sharing some early thoughts on the state of Docker and Windows containers. The Windows architecture is so dramatically different from UNIX/Linux that trying to adapt per-process containers is quite naturally going to be more than a little bit challenging.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC]. Use software, especially open source software, to drive more development toward Intel-based solutions. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

NetApps has agreed to buy Instaclustr, a service provider supporting open-source database, pipeline, and workflow applications in the cloud. Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. Infosys will fold oddity into Wongdoody, the US consumer insights agency it bought in 2018. Lansweeper acquires UMAknow.

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