Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). If you’re into the VMware homelab thing (and I know quite a few folks are), then William’s article on interesting homelab kits for 2023 might be right up your alley. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada. Wonder no longer.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Keep up the great work, Brent!)

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? Frank Denneman has a nice post on using an OS X system to manage your vSphere environment. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60