Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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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. What does this mean? Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Both articles point out the incredible difficulty of finding such a hardware hack, and point out that exploiting software vulnerabilities would probably be a much faster/easier way to accomplish the same goal. Grant Orchard has a three-part series (so far) on VMware Cloud Assembly ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Probably not.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Good times.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Macintosh iPhone Linux' For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Although it’s not called out in the article, it’s important to note that this is not supported by VMware.). to VMware NSX 6.2.5 Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Operating Systems/Applications. You can get more details via this Google blog post.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. IT folks don’t need to be strictly involved in software engineering to benefit from a journey toward a more full-stack role. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

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. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. IT folks don’t need to be strictly involved in software engineering to benefit from a journey toward a more full-stack role. Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Operating Systems/Applications. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ” Operating Systems/Applications. configurations. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around!

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). Operating Systems/Applications. x that involves booting on a Linux CD.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard.

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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). Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off?

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Or, in plain English instead of vRA jargon, Gavin shows how to prepare a Photon OS instance that can be deployed by vRA and which registers automatically with Admiral (VMware’s open source GUI for deploying containers). Operating Systems/Applications. This is great news, and something VMware needed to do. Virtualization.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. Containers provide an elegant solution to this problem. in an isolated and executable unit.

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Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. Even so, I’m going to keep an eye on Jeda to see how things progress.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security.

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Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. 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. of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). Ubuntu 16.04

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Carlos Mestre del Pino talks about automated deployment of Tanzu Community Edition on VMware Cloud on AWS using Terraform and PowerCLI. Networking.

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Network Hardware Vmware Tools 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols.

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