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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article is an interesting look at Internet scanning. Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. 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

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? Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. Here’s one idea. Thanks Gabe!

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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?

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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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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. Modular Data Centers.

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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!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #41, the latest in my series of random thoughts, articles, and links from around the Internet. Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

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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. Via this blog post by Myles Gray, VMware has announced Cloud Native Storage (CNS), powered by a new CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver for Kubernetes (and other orchestration platforms that use CSI). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. Butler mentions S3 as potential solutions here, and points out the three tiers of object-based storage: S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent Access, and Amazon Glacier. The Storage Gateway’s storage is backed by S3 and offers a standard iSCSI interface.

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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? Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. Here’s one idea. Thanks Gabe!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

VMware Invests $30 Million in Puppet Labs. In the past he’s covered all things Internet Infrastructure, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), mass market hosting, managed hosting, enterprise IT spending trends and M&A. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Puppet Releases Enterprise Automation Tool.

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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. Makes sense; if an instance isn’t serving traffic from the Internet, then it shouldn’t be reachable from the Internet.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6 available here ), and has updated VMware vRealize Configuration Manager to support assessing containerized environments against this benchmark. Pretty painless, to be honest. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ever wonder why an internet search for a product reveals similar prices across competitors, or why surge pricing occurs? The storage for these features is referred to as a feature store. Special thanks to Eric Hare at DataStax, Robert Chong at Employers Group, and Steven Jones of VMWare for their contributions to this article.

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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! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a result of their migration, provisioning time was reduced; power savings resulted; and Enel saw significant storage savings. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs. This brings Jassy to the VMware Cloud on AWS announcement, which allows customers to leverage VMware’s software stack on hardware in an AWS data center.

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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. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. Networking.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A third dimension is the fact that there is a growing need to reskill the existing workforce, especially in light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the incorporation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems into the industrial production process.

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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. He writes about a range of topics at DCK, with an emphasis on cloud hosting.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

Internet applications: Firefox handles my web browsing, but I also have Google Chrome installed for cross-browser testing. Cloud storage/sync: Dropbox works fine, although the UI integration could be much better. Any virtualization testing specific to VMware Fusion (like testing a VMware-formatted Vagrant box, for example).

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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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Dataconomy

MAY 23, 2023

It enables faster data analysis and decision-making, reduces reliance on the cloud for processing and storage, and minimizes the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network. Offline operation: Edge computing is designed to operate even without internet connectivity.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications. Aarna has amassed a total of $3.5

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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 Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product? Virtualization. (The

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot of VMware-focused folks aren’t particularly comfortable. No, it wasn’t invented by Al Gore. Sorry, Al.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2022

They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success. Cloud Computing, IT Leadership

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2013

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. VMware Weak Spot. Let’s take the generic command above and turn it into a command that is specific to accessing the VNC console of a guest domain on a remote KVM host. Accessing VNC Consoles of KVM Guests via SSH.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2023

Sovereign cloud technology plays an important role in these environments because it enables organizations to maintain control over sensitive data while leveraging cloud-scale compute and storage capabilities. Learn more about Tata Communications and its partnership with VMware here. Cloud Computing

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. Generally we draw lines between various disciplines based on what they do: the Unix team, the Windows team, the storage guys, the network guys, etc. What All Of This Means For You. No related posts.

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