Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Viktor van den Berg shares his CKAD exam experience and some tips on how to prepare. Programming.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

I am thinking that maybe 2013 will finally be the year of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) enabled BYOD. This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system.

Vmware 68

Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Is it necessary?

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Check this out.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. Daniel Karnutsch shares an ideal Azure Kubernetes Cluster configuration.

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. It will be available next year, and will come in a “native AWS” flavor as well as a VMware flavor (see William Lam’s post for more details on the VMware flavor). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization 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. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Virtualization Steven Bright shows readers how to back up their VMware ESXi TPM encryption recovery keys. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Servers/Hardware. Juan Manuel Rey walks you through applying a patch to your VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) environment.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. Overall, this is a quick but worthy read if you are trying to get started in this space.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

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. Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

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

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January). Servers/Hardware. VMware recently published a case study describing how Rackspace used VMware NSX to quickly meet new PCI DSS compliance goals. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. It’s pretty cool stuff.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 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. Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. For instance, in the case of hardware, we may have a single pane of glass to monitor hardware related events. I’ve also seen how difficult it is to manage both the product and operations model.

Vmware 68

Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 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? Why I Might Leave OS X.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Servers/Hardware. Mark Ukotic has some information on using Kubernetes pipelines and tasks in VMware Code Stream. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 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. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Greg Schulz discusses new Power9-based systems announced by IBM; see his post. One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 60