Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This places VMware and Cisco on a collision course.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. emphasis mine).

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 9, 2015

One interesting trend for Storage Field Day 7 (SFD) is the lack of Tier 1 SAN vendors. While several of the vendors are claiming support for Tier 1 applications, none of the vendors offer a traditional Tier 1 hardware array. Virtualization SFD7'

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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Hardware Budget Data Security 143

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We may be a long way away from the datacenter vision that VMware calls software defined data center (SDDC) or what Microsoft calls the cloud based data center, but we have arrived at the virtual first data center. The concept of the SDDC is that storage, compute and network are all software enabled abstracts.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. This is where I believe VMware is having difficulty in their vision.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Virtualized Greek

MAY 30, 2014

Software Defined Networking is a meaty topic and a good follow-up to last week’s conversation on Software Defined Storage. There’s a lot at stake from both the software and hardware vendors in this space. Both VMware, who’s trying to… Cloud Computing Network Virtualization NSX SDDC SDN'

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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. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

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. Networking.

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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. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in virtually every industry. In addition to VMware, these include Microsoft, Barracuda, Cohesity, and Dell among others. We are very committed to strengthening our partnerships with industry leaders like VMware,” adds Tebbutt. “We

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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. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Reader Brian Markussen—with whom I had the pleasure to speak at the Danish VMUG in Copenhagen earlier this month—brought to my attention an issue between VMware vSphere’s health check feature and Cisco UCS when using Cisco’s VIC cards. VMware ESX Networking Articles. vSphere Network Health Check and Cisco UCS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It offers global compute, storage, data protection, and client device as-a-Service solutions, enabling cloud adjacency, multicloud connectivity, and a full suite of hosting, outsourcing, and application management services through Dell and its global partners.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Virtualization.

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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. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Virtualization.

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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. But what is software-defined storage?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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Virtualized Greek

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

I just went on a Twitter brain dump of my predictions on where VMware is going ultimately with their plan on living beyond their market leading server virtualization technology and eventual data center domination. Again, VMware isn’t sweating bullets. They will use abstraction via virtualization to achieve their goal.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

The post Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview appeared first on StorageIOblog. This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources.

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Storage Resources Cloud Data 84

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Keith Townsend: VMworld session review – NET2207, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Technical Deep Dive. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – VMware vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance INF-SEC1840. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 APP-BCA1516. Vladan Seget: Top VMware vSphere 5.1

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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. Virtualization. Seriously.).

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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.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. It is comprised of different building blocks such as software-defined storage (STS), software-defined networking (SDN), compute virtualization and related services. Software-defined dependency on the hardware layer.

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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. Virtualization. on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Ken Oestreich. 、????，???????，?????????，??????。

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Looking for more VMware NSX content? Servers/Hardware. Networking. Need more details on PFS?

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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). J Metz has launched his own, storage-focused “Short Takes” series; the first of these is found here.

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