Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ).

Strategy 210

Strategy Cloud Vmware Data Center 210

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Networking Brent Salisbury shares some code intended to help you “ChatGPT your project documentation.” This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. ” What does that mean, exactly?

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Networking. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? now has a follow-up exploit that exposes Aruba and Avaya network switches to remote code execution. Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

Storage 83

Storage Vmware Architecture Operating Systems 83

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Networking. Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs. x will be the last version to officially support macOS virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Networking. This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. But is it really a virtual machine ? Leave it to Ivan to school everyone on Ethernet encapsulations.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak addresses the idea that network automation is harmful. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Networking. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Networking. Will Robinson talks about how to structure your Ansible playbooks in the context of using Ansible to control your network gear. This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Networking. VXLAN overlay networks between AWS and GCE? Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Colin shares a critical learning item on using Terraform with VMware ESXi. I still have quite the backlog of links to read!) Enjoy the links below, and enjoy your weekend!

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Networking. VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. (For Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

I am thinking that maybe 2013 will finally be the year of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) enabled BYOD. This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system.

Vmware 68

Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Networking. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Operating Systems/Applications. Here you go.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Networking. This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Networking. VMware recently released an updated to PowerCLI (version 6.5.3), and with it comes a set of cmdlets that provide low-level access to the NSX-T REST API. I really enjoyed David Gee’s series on the network automation engineer persona ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Networking. Jason Edelman recently took a look at Docker networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a question I get all the time is “Have I missed the boat on VMware?” vSphere is the best overall technical solution for virtualized environments – today. But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. General Cisco OpenStack SDN VMWare'

Vmware 91

Vmware Engineering Comparison Virtualization 91

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. 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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

Networking. Ivan Velichko has been publishing some great articles on container-focused networking concepts; the latest (that I’d seen as of the writing of this article) is this one on publishing the port of a running container. Numerous Networks has some information on optimizing Wi-Fi 6E networks for Apple devices.

Network 74

Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Networking. Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Version 2.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. OK, bring on the links!

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. OK, bring on the links!

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Lindsay Hill recently took Simon Wardley’s pioneers/settlers/town planners (PST) model—which is itself based on Cringely’s Accidental Empires book and the commandos/infantry/police model—and applied to it the networking industry. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Networking. It will be available next year, and will come in a “native AWS” flavor as well as a VMware flavor (see William Lam’s post for more details on the VMware flavor). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. ” Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60