Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. 264 videos , Leo Chavez has some information that should help. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. In this article , we see an example of using Nitro Enclaves to provide ultra-secure password storage within EC2 instances. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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. Kevin Houston has three blog posts that provide some additional information on VRTX: a quick video introduction , a more detailed look , and a demonstration of how quiet the VRTX is. Here’s one idea.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I’m also thinking of creating a video version of the presentation with some expanded content; I’d love to hear from readers if they would find that useful. I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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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. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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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. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 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. Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Seen this ? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. I suppose this could go under “Networking”, but it’s really focused on hardware—specifically, the NoviSwitch line of OpenFlow-optimized switches from NoviFlow. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6 Get all the details here.

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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

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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. Kevin Houston has three blog posts that provide some additional information on VRTX: a quick video introduction , a more detailed look , and a demonstration of how quiet the VRTX is. Here’s one idea.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. Servers/Hardware. No worries, Emad Younis has a write-up on using Ravello to try out VMware Integrated OpenStack. (If Running vSphere 6? You’re done.

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 10, 2013

If you’ve never watched these Youtube videos from Cisco you should check them out. To have SDDC you need to have mature Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage (SDS) and even if it’s not a proper term let’s keep it rolling Software Defined Compute (SDC). They are almost as good as my Tech Talks.

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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Here is a more in-depth video on customizing notifications. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Maps and dashboards: visualization and control panels. Distributed monitoring. Detailed reports. What to Monitor.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Servers/Hardware. This is a lesson VMware learned years ago with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). If you’ve been wondering about why I made this shift, give the video of our chat a look, and then feel free to hit me up on Twitter. Yep, get used to it folks—it’s where the industry is headed. Virtualization.

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

If you don’t have extra hardware, Vail installs flawlessly into Hyper-V based environments and one of our MVPS already has a blog post on how to install it into VMWare. The hardware requirements for Vail call for a 1.4 How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Windows 7. (47).

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Cloud Computing » Services » Storage. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Storage News: Hitachi, EMC, nScaled, NetApp. VMworld News: VMware, Cisco, EMC, VCE.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The concept of the software-defined data center (SDDC) rose to prominence during VMworld 2012, with VMware touting it as the next big leap forward in information technology management. The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. The Logical Next Step.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 1, 2013

Doesn’t matter if it’s Hyper-V, VMware, Xen or KVM the major decision of Physical vs. Virtual lab is the same. If you are new to virtualization your first thought may be to go out and purchase some dedicated hardware to run your lab sessions. The big question is what do you do for shared storage. Networking.

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Virtualization Vmware Storage Hardware 78

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. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Servers/Hardware. Networking. DVM looks handy. So many new terms!

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments. Data Center Videos.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. There’s more detail available in this post as well. Programming.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

This point was brought up by VMware, but in connection to the above points, really hits home as it is the cost of a service, not an application, is what counts. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Data Center Videos.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Riverbed and VMware Collaborate on Networks. Riverbed Releases Enterprise-Class Server Consolidation Solution. By: John Rath July 17th, 2013.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Built on VMWare vCloud Director 5.1 Designed for customers who rely on VMware technologies, Savvis Cloud Data Center streamlines extensions into the cloud with easy-to-use familiar interfaces and tools for scaling performance to their needs.”. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Data Center Videos.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

VMware Invests $30 Million in Puppet Labs. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Data Center Videos. Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Enterprise 2.0.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. on downloading the videos from the OpenStack Summit.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack agains the incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services and VMWare,” writes Bias. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Data Center Videos. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. Players: VMware, Citrix, MSFT, Parallels, etc. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

IO Virtualization is an approach whereby physical IO components such as Network Interface Cards (NICs) Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs) and Keyboard/video/Mouse ports (KVM) are reproduced logically rather than physically. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. Todays Physical Infrastructure.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). All I/O resources, including storage and network connections, QoS settings, and HA configurations, are contained within that profile. even if that environment hosts VMs and native OSs. Newer Post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. In early March it announced its second of 2022, Excelero, which develops software for securing and accelerating arrays of flash storage for use in enterprise high-performance computing. Dell and VMware to split up. Oracle’s bid for stake in teen video app TikTok on hold.

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