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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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. Blake Garner shares a Packer template for macOS 11 on VMware Fusion. OpenCSPM looks like it could be quite a useful tool. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #137! Networking. Matt Oswalt digs into eBPF.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

The keynote starts, as usual, with a snazzy marketing video. After the video wraps up, Robin Matlock takes the stage. This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

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 Thanks Cody!

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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

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 106

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

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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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

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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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 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. 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

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.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Virtualized Greek

MAY 10, 2013

If you’ve never watched these Youtube videos from Cisco you should check them out. It doesn’t matter if we are talking VMware, KVM, XEN or Hyper-V. But ultimately you want to be able to deliver as much control via abstraction to the SDDC components of your cloud without concern of the underlying hardware.

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Cloud Storage SMB Software 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well. Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, Unix. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. Very cool, guys. Ken Oestreich. 1 comment: Rob Rossi said. ► July. (2).

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. CNET is the world’s leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to’s and more. Your gateway to the VMware universe. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? I then re-loaded Xubuntu and spun up my Windows 10 Pro instance using VMware Player. Here’s a video that will help you get started. Plus, I kept hearing about Debian “Jessie” from the blogosphere, so I wanted to give that distribution a shot as well.

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Linux Open Source Windows Operating Systems 60

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 Vista.

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

CNET is the world’s leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to’s and more. Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Your gateway to the VMware universe. ReadWrite Blog. Jon Loomer.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

CNET is the world’s leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to’s and more. Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Your gateway to the VMware universe. ReadWrite Blog. Jon Loomer.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. CNET is the world’s leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to’s and more. Your gateway to the VMware universe. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

CNET is the world’s leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to’s and more. Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Your gateway to the VMware universe. ReadWrite Blog. Jon Loomer.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

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

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. It’s about time.)

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

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. So, you want to improve your knowledge of virtualization. Networking.

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Virtualization Vmware Storage Hardware 78

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. Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. SHANNON SNOWDEN.

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Disaster Recovery Data Center Meeting Software 125

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

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 10, 2014

I know this is an understatement, but VSAN and NSX are very important VMware. Not just because they both introduce two new markets for VMware but also because it represents a shift in the position of the hypervisor in the data center. VMware has now opened the hypervisor to these two new VMware products.

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Vmware Strategy Virtualization Linux 63

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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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

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. Data Center Videos. CFO of IT cares about service cost and makes sourcing decisions. Convergence.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 10, 2014

I know this is an understatement, but VSAN and NSX are very important VMware. Not just because they both introduce two new markets for VMware but also because it represents a shift in the position of the hypervisor in the data center. VMware has now opened the hypervisor to these two new VMware products.

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Vmware Strategy Virtualization Linux 49

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

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. VMworld News: VMware, Cisco, EMC, VCE. Data Center Videos. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 190

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 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.”. Data Center Videos. Featured Cloud Articles. Convergence. Disaster Recovery.

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Data Center Cloud Data Fractional CTO 187

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. Data Center Videos. Puppet Labs’ mission is making it easier to manage the flow of changes in complex IT environments. Convergence.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise Enterprise 192