Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. 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). A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. This doesn’t make me feel very secure. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. I hope it proves useful!

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Humair Ahmed takes a closer look at some Cross-VC NSX security enhancements that landed in the recent NSX 6.3 Here’s a post by Ron Fuller on changing the IP address of NSX Manager.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Daniel Sagi of Aqua Security explains the mechanics behind a Pod escape using file system mounts. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Teri Radichel uses some basketball analogies to explain why defensive (proactive) security strategies are more desirable than reactive security strategies. 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). A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Mike Foley shares his experience in updating his vSphere hosts to support the new Secure Boot functionality in vSphere 6.7. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers. Virtue Security has some articles on AWS penetration testing: one on S3 buckets and one that also covers IAM and EC2. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. From an unknown author, we have this security rant on Flatpak. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1 Networking. Servers/Hardware. storage enhancements.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Russell Bryant has a couple great articles on OVN— how to test OVN’s “EZ Bake” release with DevStack as well as an article on implementing OpenStack security groups using OVN ACLs (which in turn leverage the integration between Open vSwitch and the Linux kernel’s conntrack module). More on Clair from TechCrunch here.). Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

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. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Networking. Kubernetes cheat sheet?

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

From the Not Surprised Department, some folks are starting to take a harder look at the timelines for security patches for older versions of macOS compared to newer versions. Rory McCune of Aqua shares some new security-related features in the Kubernetes 1.23 Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And the use of mobile devices is also key to VMware’s identity efforts as well. Poonen shows a video with a few customer testimonials, and then introduces Jim Alkove, Corporate VP in charge of enterprise management and security for Windows at Microsoft. Finally, security is a key challenge. What about iOS and Android devices?

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. Feel free to share something in the comments!

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules.

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