Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Linux Report Vmware Travel 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

From new courses to new labs, we have a ton of exciting new Google Cloud updates at Linux Academy ( where you can get the most Google Cloud training on this planet! ). Practice what you’re learning by spinning up live environments within Linux Academy! Object Versioning in Google Cloud Storage.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization. Think again.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

This makes it possible to embrace increasingly mature tools and technologies – from mainframe data virtualization, API development, hierarchical storage management (HSM), and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) – that bring mainframe systems forward to today’s IT infrastructure expectations. Modernizing in place.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements. Virtualization. It starts here.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

tackles the question of whether an API gateway is needed if a service mesh is present. Virtualization. For those new to Linux virtualization—or even if you’ve been around Linux virtualization for a while—this article explaining how Intel VT-x, QEMU, and KVM work together is full of good information.

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Linux Virtualization Security Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

If you’ve been reading my site for any length of time, you know that I’ve been working with libvirt , the open source virtualization API, for a while. For example, on Ubuntu, this means that apt-get , aptitude , and Update Manager are not aware that a newer version of libvirt is present on the system. on Ubuntu 12.04

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. The article also has a link to a paper that Burns will present at HotCloud ‘16. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Christian Mohn shares an approach of storing private information in a Git repository along with GitBook for publication/presentation. Alpine Linux 3.5 Neat trick!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. For what it’s worth, I’ve never tried NetBSD, but I have yet to run into any similar issues with any distribution of Linux I’ve tried. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Linux Course Devops Big Data 12

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. By granting greater intelligence to how volumes are allocated, cloud service providers can offer differentiated (read: premium priced) services for block storage.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 31, 2014

Delete the contrib/docker/docker/tests directory; in my testing, the plugin failed to load if you leave this directory present in the plugin. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Linux Virtualization Automation Docker OpenStack'

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Linux Virtualization Engineering Resources 71

Scott Lowe

APRIL 17, 2013

Florian starts out the presentation with a slide that says, “This is a business, not a science project.” Finally, Florian acknowledges that his presentation will probably be a bit biased toward service provider-type use cases. ” He re-iterates that this session is about making business sense.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Using a Linux Environment. It’s no secret that I use OS X, and the toolchain that the OpenStack documentation team uses is—like the rest of OpenStack—pretty heavily biased toward Linux. It wasn’t until just recently that I realized: why not just use a Linux VM? on Amazon EC2 (via Ravello Systems).

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Tools Linux Open Source Cloud 67

Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

Docker leverages LXC (Linux Containers), which encompasses Linux features like cgroups and namespaces for strong process isolation and resource control. LTS as the Linux platform. linux-headers-generic-lts-raring. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Linux Construction Applications Virtualization 88

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Read this post-mortem on an outage to gain a better idea of some of the challenges this additional complexity might present when it comes to troubleshooting. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ).

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. Even so, this Q&A session with Martin Casado on managing physical and virtual worlds in parallel might be worth going through the hassle. Virtualization. x that involves booting on a Linux CD. Networking. This looks interesting.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Per RFC 1925 , every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images). Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). I like some of the ideas Tauleria presents and hope to be able to implement some of them soon in my own project(s). Virtualization. I’m not sure how I missed that part 2 was published only 2 days later, so I’m rectifying that now. Go check out part 2.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This post contains a link to a useful presentation on the essential parts of EVPN. Virtualization. The workflow incorporates Ansible, git, Jenkins, and Gerrit.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Mike Foley talks about new support for Virtualization Based Security (VBS) and Credential Guard in vSphere 6.7. Thomas Graf explains why the Linux kernel community is replacing iptables with BPF. Along the way, he explains the virtual kubelet project as well, so if you’re unfamiliar with that effort this article will help.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Virtualization.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Open Virtual Network (OVN) here before, as I’m pretty jazzed about the work going on with this project.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Virtualization. Networking. Good stuff.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

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. This gives them very fine-grained control over data access.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Kenneth Hui—with whom I have the privilege of co-presenting at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in less than a month—has a comprehensive write-up on using Vagrant and Chef to build an HA OpenStack installation on your laptop. Virtualization. Puppet code examples are available here. Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS?

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private network (VPN) solution to connect back to our employers’ corporate networks in order to get work done.

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Network Linux System Windows 61

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. NixOS seems to be an interesting re-think of a Linux distribution.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2014

If you have any questions, have more information to share, or have corrections or clarifications to any of the information presented here, please speak up in the comments. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. A Heat Template for Docker Containers.

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Virtualization Linux Network Fashion 71

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Sharma will focus on the “Security Provider Assurance” usage model during this presentation. The other components required to make this work will either be delivered in Folsom (where changes in the scheduler are available) or already in the Linux kernel (like the tboot functionality/support).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This year it is better than ever, with a great set of presentations from government experts who have done really incredible things with data in support of critical missions. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia. Audie Hittle. He likes shiny objects. Webster Mudge. where he was their CSO.

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