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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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. 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. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Via Russ White , RFC 9199 was drawn to my attention (“Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. What do I have in store for you this time around?

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

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. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

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. You can think VMware vSphere but with a GUI. I was close in my prediction.

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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?

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 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. Virtualization.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

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. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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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. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. Howard Oakley has a great series on Apple Silicon; the series is up to three posts so far.

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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.

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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.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 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. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 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. Virtualization.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 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. Hat tip to James Kane for bringing this to my attention.)

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 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. It’s pretty cool stuff. Virtualization.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

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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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.

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

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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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.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Cormac Hogan shares some lessons learned using a Kubernetes Operator to query vSphere resources. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 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. Networking.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. Blake Garner shares a Packer template for macOS 11 on VMware Fusion.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since that time, though, I’ve pivoted a bit and selected a different Linux distribution as the operating system (OS) for my primary laptop moving forward. were as follows: Hardware support. Fedora, on the other hand, doesn’t run quite as well on Apple hardware. In this post, I’d like to describe why I selected Fedora.

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Linux Hardware Dell Apple 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. Servers/Hardware. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

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. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Servers/Hardware. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. Jesse Hu has shared a Helm chart for deploying VMware’s open source Harbor registry.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches. Richard Arnold shares some thoughts on VMware Cloud on AWS. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Servers/Hardware. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Operating Systems/Applications. Time to get patching, folks!

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption? Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. While it looks reasonably comprehensive and complete, I do have to question how current it is given that there are still references to AppCatalyst (which was discontinued by VMware quite a while ago). Frank Denneman—now back at VMware (welcome back, Frank!)—has

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 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.

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