Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it). Operating Systems/Applications. It’s the end of an era.

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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 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good. Servers/Hardware. or higher).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Networking.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

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

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to keep your PowerShell Core up to date?

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple on Intel.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). Operating Systems/Applications. This looks interesting. Very good stuff!

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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). Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Servers/Hardware.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Operating Systems/Applications. Fournova Software, makers of the OS X-specific Git client Tower , have an article listing 5 tips to be more productive with Dash.

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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. Grant Orchard has a three-part series (so far) on VMware Cloud Assembly ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Probably not.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This post on automating NSX security rules using Splunk (and some custom code) is pretty cool. Hint, hint.).

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off?

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. VMware PowerCLI 10.0 So much for software-defined storage? Dave Cheney has a great technical write-up on using Contour with Let’s Encrypt to secure web applications running on Kubernetes. John Jardin shares his thoughts on Kubernetes on Azure. is now available.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Luc Dekens has a great article on the basics of cloud-init , with a particular focus on its usage with PowerCLI in VMware-based environments. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. This post on automating NSX security rules using Splunk (and some custom code) is pretty cool. Hint, hint.).

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ahmet Alp Balkan does a deep dive on the KUBECONFIG file. Lee Briggs writes about his experience with Fargate. Nothing this time.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has recently published three good articles on storage in Kubernetes (the articles are all part of a larger “Kubernetes Storage on vSphere” series).

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. This one is a bit older (refers to NSX 6.1 Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 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. Diablo Technologies.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The VM is given its own operating system and resources, but they are all contained within the host computer. Each virtualized OS has its own set of resources, such as CPU, memory, and storage, but they share the same physical hardware. Both virtual servers can access the same SATA hard drive for storage.

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Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Operating Systems/Applications. The new filesystem is called LCFS, or Layer Cloning File System, and you can get more details on LCFS via its GitHub repository.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Organizations that postpone modernization complain about being stuck in maintenance mode with disparate, multi-vendor backup and recovery systems that are complex and expensive to maintain. Storage efficiency. In fact, the HPE solution delivers superior storage efficiency as compared to alternate VMware backup solutions.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the bad guys really started targeting it in a major way. This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. By offloading data storage and optimizing the network, the DPU frees the CPU power for mission-critical applications.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage. Update 1 upgrade that results in missing storage providers. ” Classic!

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