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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Thierry De Pauw lays out the arguments against the use of feature branches in software development. Virtualization. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe?

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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. Virtualization. Per the README.md Hint, hint.).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets.

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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

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 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.

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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As for how severe a vulnerability this is, Tom Kellerman, a former member of the Obama administration's cybersecurity commission and the head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware, discussed with The Hill: "This is one of the worst vulnerabilities in the history of vulnerabilities. They are also tied to more traditional cyber espionage.".

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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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

Paul Johnston explains why he believes serverless systems aren’t software systems. Regardless, Paul does effectively point out some of the differences in building “traditional” software systems versus serverless systems. Virtualization. David Anderson’s post on how NAT Traversal works should help.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration.

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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. Virtualization. Per the README.md Hint, hint.).

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.

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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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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.

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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. Virtualization. Probably not. Security.

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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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Virtualization. Networking.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.

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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. Ivan Pepelnjak asks the question, “Is OpenFlow the best tool for overlay virtual networks?”

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Virtualization. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5.

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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. Virtualization. Sysdig explains PSPs, and talks about kube-psp-advisor , a tool to help simplify deploying PSPs. Nothing this time.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

It seemed to Jonathan that supporting virtualization and public cloud environments was the direction to head, and he needed to get a better grasp on software development. VMware Communities and other blogs were helpful. Currently working with some Ansible modules for VMware. PowerCLI was a natural first step for him.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. 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.

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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. Virtualization. Craig McLuckie shares his perspective on multi-cloud.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). 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.

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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

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? Virtualization. Nested OS X guest on top of nested ESXi on top of VMware Fusion?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 27, 2017

Software is increasingly permeating nearly every aspect of our lives. While many of these software-driven technology advances, from medical devices to autonomous vehicles, hold amazing promise to make our lives better, the prevalence of software has also left us more exposed to attack than ever.

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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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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.” This brings Chagam to discussing Ceph, which he describes as the “only” (quotes his) open source virtual block storage option.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

I used this to get started on my Linux migration journey, focusing on writing my blog and other open source efforts. I first went with Chromium (open source version of Chrome), and then realized that the 32-bit Iceweasel plugin was the way to go. Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? None of this was too complex.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 15, 2019

My job encompasses supporting Linux and VMware on physical servers. I think we have close to 1600 virtual instances at any given time, spread across two data centers separated by 10 miles. Anytime someone comes with software or solution, we always ask what are the PaaS or cloud offerings. Virtualization was a big one.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

the leading provider of Networked Flash ™ appliances, today announced the release of ViSX OS v5, the latest software release for the ViSX family of Performance Storage Appliances. It delivers outstanding all-flash performance while co-existing with installed storage for both physical and virtual environments. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 27, 2017

Software is increasingly permeating nearly every aspect of our lives. While many of these software-driven technology advances, from medical devices to autonomous vehicles, hold amazing promise to make our lives better, the prevalence of software has also left us more exposed to attack than ever.

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