Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Servers/Hardware.

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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? Here’s a good source. Andre Leibovici provides a round-up of VMware Horizon View 5.3

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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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Group Policy Resources.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Good times. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md Operating Systems/Applications.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

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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. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. I hope it proves useful! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Steve Tilkens has a review of some different storage options he’s explored in his VMware-based home lab.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

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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. Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. Probably not. Security. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Melissa Palmer (aka “vMiss”) has a post where she’s collecting tips and tricks for VMware Fusion.

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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. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A complete OS based on the bare bones open source that backs macOS is apparently a real thing called PureDarwin. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Are you running an all-VMware shop and want to add some Kubernetes to the mix? Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Nested OS X guest on top of nested ESXi on top of VMware Fusion? Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Fournova Software, makers of the OS X-specific Git client Tower , have an article listing 5 tips to be more productive with Dash. VMware recently announced VSAN 6.2 , and along with the new release is plenty of coverage from the VMware community. Keep ‘em coming, Juan! Virtualization. Is now the time?

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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. ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce data center networking fundamentals: Naturally, my role at VMware has me spending a great deal of time on how network virtualization affects DC networking, and this translated into some progress on this project. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

By Bob Gourley New Release of ViSX Performance Storage Appliance OS Boosts Tier 1 Applications and VDI Performance by up to 10X While Supporting Existing NAS and SAN Infrastructure Investments. We consider ViSX OS v5 a quantum leap from a niche playing flash array to a major contender in the storage business. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. VMware is not alone in being driven by financial reasons.

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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. In this case, it’s on validating HW VTEP deployment for integration with NSX.

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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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Brent Salisbury has an article on GoBGP , a Go-based BGP implementation.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI): [link]. The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design: [link]. Use software, especially open source software, to drive more development toward Intel-based solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

In an earlier article , I discussed three proven ingredients for a holistic data platform approach to managing and harnessing data – cloud-native technologies, real-time data, and open source software(OSS) – to drive business value. Let’s look at how to do this. A unified real-time data platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

billion that Oracle agreed to pay for health software provider Cerner. Already this year, there are numerous smaller M&A deals, as enterprise software providers buy their way into new markets or acquire new capabilities rather than develop them in house. Perforce Software buys Puppet. M&A volume climbed from $3.26

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