Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. William Lam has a quick look at ContainerX on VMware vSphere.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Some examples include Microsoft Hypervisor, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop for the Mac. Examples include VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer. Consider storage space, ram, CPU, network adapters, etc. Licensing costs may play a part in these decisions. Source: Intel. Virtualization Tips.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). (I think some other vendors might take issue with that claim.)

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Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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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Backup Software Software Vmware 66

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license. Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

VMware is offering organizations a flexible multi-cloud purchasing and consumption solution that aims for consistency in infrastructure across every cloud, so that migration now and in the future is seamless and less complex. But multi-cloud environments will quickly lose their allure if their operations are not seamless.

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Vmware Disaster Recovery Cloud Licensing 98

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. Networking. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. Cloud storage/sync: GNOME offers built-in integration for Google Drive, and I’m still using Dropbox for non-confidential information. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

Linux 60

Linux Report Vmware Google 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. The series provides an introduction and overview of licensing (part 1), a review of architecture and hardware recommendations (part 2), an overview of data availability (part 3), and a discussion of fault domains (part 4). Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. For more information and to download the trial versions for 30 days or for the Freeware license you can access the official site: [link]. Failover Cluster: fault tolerance. Maps and dashboards: visualization and control panels. Distributed monitoring. What to Monitor.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

By now you’ve probably heard about VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which was announced in early February. First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Moving into storage, Rice mentions Rook, which as of September moved from the Sandbox into the CNCF Incubator. Kuo comes back to the stage to introduce Wendy Cartee, Senior Director of Cloud Native Advocacy at VMware. Cartee reviews the lessons learned at VMware in reaching enterprises. Rice moves on to Linkerd 2.0,

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Open Source Vmware Architecture Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Steve Flanders wrote up a post announcing the release of Log Insight 3.3 , also announcing that vCenter Server users are also entitled to access to a limited-license version of Log Insight as well. VMware recently announced VSAN 6.2 , and along with the new release is plenty of coverage from the VMware community. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

There are organizations on the steering committee (like BMW), contributing members (like Nokia or Verizon), solution provider members (like CiRBA, Citrix, Cisco, RedHat, CA, VMware, Teradata, Hortonworks, and more), and adopter members (too many to list). Licensing and license management. Migration scenarios.

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Cloud Intel Data Center Licensing 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. For #2, we’ll examine the Intel DPDK.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Multiple touch points of administration slow down production, and the costs of software licensing, disruptive upgrades, and over-provisioning can add up fast. Storage efficiency. In fact, the HPE solution delivers superior storage efficiency as compared to alternate VMware backup solutions. Cost optimization.

Backup 104

Backup Storage Cloud Vmware 104

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

VMware vCloud Service – Software Data Center for Rent. The basic goal is to bring what you have to the cloud and install it on VMware’s cloud based hypervisor platform. This approach gives the technical ability to bring your licenses to VMware Cloud. Single hop storage (SSD Accelerated). The Solution.

Vmware 64

Vmware Data Center Licensing Cloud 64

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. Keep up the great work, Brent!) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A quick perusal of the ONF web site does not indicate that the OpenFlow materials are available anywhere under any open source license. This isn’t to say that they aren’t freely available, just not available under an open source license.). The big VMware launch event was on February 2, and among the announcements was vSphere 6.0.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

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. JVC quickly licensed VHS, giving up control, while Sony didn’t take what the consumers wanted into account. Modular Data Centers.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199