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.

Vmware 60

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. I said a LONG TIME ago that Windows 8 should be a hypervisor based OS. One of the great features of Windows 8 that hasn’t gotten much attention has been that it’s a Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor.

Vmware 68

Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Looking for tool to convert a Windows system to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) while it is running? The following are a collection of odd’s and end’s devices and tools for hardware and software defining your environment.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Software Intel 40

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 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. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 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. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

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

Galido

MAY 23, 2016

Uranium Backup is an easy-to-use and flexible software to perform hot backups of Hyper-V and VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere virtual machines. From automated live Exchange backups on the network to secure remote MS SQL backups across the Internet, Hyperoo is all you need to SECURE, BACKUP and RESTORE any Windows file, including Hyper-V & VMware!

Backup 66

Backup Software Software Vmware 66

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

OCTOBER 10, 2012

” Primarily this means how to handle Windows-based applications and managing Windows instances (like migrating to new versions of Windows). Naturally, VDI is a key part of this effort, and Herrod reviews the improvements that VMware made in the last release of View, version 5.1. Virtualization VMware VMworld2012'

Vmware 109

Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109

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. After reading this article , I’m wondering: are “fake” VMware Ready Nodes even a thing?

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Servers/Hardware. 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. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?), Time will tell. An 8TB NVMe drive? Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 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. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” Public Beta Available Today! As you know, one of the products I work on is Windows Home Server. Today we’re excited to announce that the next version of Windows Home Server (codename “Vail”) is available for you to try. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. What’s new?

Windows 72

Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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. Frank Denneman—now back at VMware (welcome back, Frank!)—has Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

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. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops 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.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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. x86 marches on! You can get more details from the Netronome press release. Check this out.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. 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. This looks horribly confusing.

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. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 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. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I like Windows along with XenDesktop and VMware View. But it is official; I’m so over the concept of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) because I’m so over Windows. Maybe it is the fact that I’ve been using a Mac for the past several months and I no longer rely on Windows for my day-to-day home computing. Guess what?

Windows 85

Windows Mobile Virtualization Applications 85

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. Without further ado, let’s get to the content. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 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. Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server. on Ubuntu 16.04.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

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

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. 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. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you. Kudos to J.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. VMware addressed this in an earlier post. So, what’s the value proposition for NSX?

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

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. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Windows and WMI performance counters. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 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. Numerous Networks has some information on optimizing Wi-Fi 6E networks for Apple devices.

Network 74

Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Hardware support: Given that I’m a current OS X user, it’s quite likely that I’ll press Apple hardware into service first. With that in mind, Ubuntu 16.04 (which I’ll just refer to as Xenial from here on) does a good job of supporting hardware (I’m writing this from Ubuntu 16.04 It’s what works for me. Data Formats.

Linux 60

Linux Report Hardware Windows 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

I don’t look at the “partnership” of VMware and Google on the VDI client for Chromebook as a validation of the future of VDI. Windows applications running on Chromebooks don’t align with the vision of cloud based application consumption. Cloud Computing PC & Server Hardware VDI'

Applications 69

Applications Google Vmware Cloud 69

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. 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. Here’s one idea. Thanks Gabe!

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 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