Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Networking. Any thoughts?

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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 ). Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges? Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Here’s one idea. Servers/Hardware. Thanks Gabe!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Flavio Leitner has a nice article comparing OVS internal ports with Linux veth devices. This topic is the subject of some debate given that some claim OVS internal ports perform much better than Linux veth devices. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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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.

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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 ). Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges? Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Here’s one idea. Servers/Hardware. Thanks Gabe!

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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). If you don’t know how that image was built, this is no different than downloading a compiled executable from the Internet and running it.

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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. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. The latest I’ve found: Kontena. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Networking. configurations. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2015

Upon hearing the news that Red Hat had released the Atomic Host variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux , I decided that it would be a good idea for me to take a look at the CentOS flavor of the Atomic Host variant. I’ve spent most of my time with Ubuntu (for general purpose Linux use cases) and CoreOS (for container-optimized use cases).

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 13, 2013

I got into a spirited debate on twitter with a buddy regarding XenDesktop vs. VMware Horizon Suite. There’s client’s for Blackberry, Windows 8, iOS, Linux and Android just to name a few. If you don’t have an Internet connection then you don’t have access to your desktops.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Hykes believes that programming (software) is the biggest innovation multiplier in the world, and launches into a discussion of how making the Internet “programmable” would be the ultimate achievement. In summary, Hykes believes that the next 5 years or so are going to be spent making the Internet programmable.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. IT News strives to be the most comprehensive technology news site on the Internet, aggregating the output of the powerful brands that make up the vast IDG Network. Handpicking the sweet digital goods of Internet and technology.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2013

On OS X or Linux, this installs with the OS; on Windows, you’ll need a client like PuTTY. VMware Weak Spot. Linux Virtualization CLI KVM SSH' In this post, I’ll show you how to use SSH to access the VNC console of a KVM guest domain. Here are the tools you’ll need to make this work: An SSH client. A VNC client.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. ReadWrite Blog.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. ReadWrite Blog.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. ReadWrite Blog.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. IT News strives to be the most comprehensive technology news site on the Internet, aggregating the output of the powerful brands that make up the vast IDG Network. Handpicking the sweet digital goods of Internet and technology.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. I hope I have managed to find a few useful things for you! (If

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

However, while you may have the Docker provider as part of Vagrant, you still need Docker itself (just like if you have the VMware provider for Vagrant, you still need the appropriate VMware product— VMware Fusion on the Mac or VMware Workstation on Windows/Linux) in order to provide the functionality Vagrant will consume.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

However, while you may have the Docker provider as part of Vagrant, you still need Docker itself (just like if you have the VMware provider for Vagrant, you still need the appropriate VMware product— VMware Fusion on the Mac or VMware Workstation on Windows/Linux) in order to provide the functionality Vagrant will consume.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Otherwise, I leave you with this list of links and articles from around the Internet to keep you busy. Network bonding in Linux—as outlined in this article —is something I may have to explore. What I’d really like to have is something like ControlPlane (née Marco Polo for the longtime Mac users), but for Linux.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s an article on the recently-introduced pwru tool, which aims to help with tracing network packets in the Linux kernel. For all the Internet’s distributed nature, it’s funny how some aspects still end up being dependent on smaller, less distributed things. I hope that you find something useful here. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2017

This functionality works both online (has Internet access) and offline (without Internet access, good for air-gapped installations). Scanning is supported for both Linux (x86_64) and Windows images (with support for IBM z Series in the works). Under the covers, scanning works along 4 steps.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2015

While I’ve discussed etcd before , that was in the context of using etcd with CoreOS Linux. As long as it has Internet connectivity, that’s all that’s needed. linux-amd64 by default) and use mv to move the etcd and etcdctl binaries to a more permanent location on your system. the VMware plugin for Vagrant, and Fusion 6.0.5.

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