Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Servers/Hardware. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

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. What does this mean?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 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. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Read more about it here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? Servers/Hardware.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). Operating Systems/Applications. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0 GitHub would be a good way.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware PowerCLI 10.0 Chris Evans discusses a recent re-org that aligns ScaleIO with hardware sales. So much for software-defined storage? Daniel Álvarez has a good article describing some OVN profiling and optimizing he recently performed. is now available.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Servers/Hardware. Seen this ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Only two posts so far (but very thorough posts), one on setting up VMware NSX and another on logical networking with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Hang on tight, this will be an interesting ride!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This looks interesting.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 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. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. CoreOS rkt is coming along nicely; version 0.15.0 GitHub would be a good way.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Or, in plain English instead of vRA jargon, Gavin shows how to prepare a Photon OS instance that can be deployed by vRA and which registers automatically with Admiral (VMware’s open source GUI for deploying containers). Operating Systems/Applications. Sorry, I don’t have anything this time around.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Operating Systems/Applications. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion. I haven’t tested it.). Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache.

Meeting 63

Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

At my new job, I have the option to use any operating system (OS), and I naturally gravitated toward Linux. Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? Going with a basic distro, however, I had to install a bunch of software to get my environment the way I liked it (Docky, scudcloud, terminator, tmux, synapse, etc.).

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. (You might also be interested in an earlier article that outlines how to build and install OVN with OpenStack.).

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. There are other pentesting operating systems like Parrot.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. There are other pentesting operating systems like Parrot.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52