Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. For instance, there was the whole Windows vs. automobile industry meme that was going around a few years ago. For instance, in the case of hardware, we may have a single pane of glass to monitor hardware related events.

Vmware 68

Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

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 dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 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 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 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

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. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

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. followed by a quick 2.4.1

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

Servers/Hardware. This could be bad—a wormable vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code by exploiting potentially any Windows application protocol that provides authentication, including (potentially) SMTP or HTTP. Operating Systems/Applications. Get more details in this article.

Network 74

Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Jeff Geerling walks you through how to use Ansible via Windows 10’s Subsystem for Linux. Based on Jeff’s description, it sounds like the Subsystem for Linux is essentially nothing more than an Ubuntu VM running on Windows 10. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 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. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. Feedback is always welcome!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 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. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 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. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Here’s a three-part series on running VMware NSX on vSphere on AWS via Ravello Systems ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. x86 marches on! Check this out.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 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.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Good information, thanks! Hint, hint.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Nothing this time around!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. and Windows Server 2012 NFS.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

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. Very handy!

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role. Kevin Houston provides some details on blade server options for VMware vSAN Ready Nodes.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! Networking. Good luck with that.)

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

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

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

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? I spent another afternoon and evening restoring Windows 10 Pro—but only long enough to perform a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion into a disk image.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Windows Operating Systems 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

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Operating Systems/Applications. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. John Welsh has a post on why someone might use VMware NSX. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Operating Systems/Applications. Nicolas Michel has a good post on the transition from network engineer v1.0

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Good information, thanks! Hint, hint.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Erik Hinderer takes a stab (based on his field experience) at estimating how long it takes to upgrade VMware NSX. When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

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