The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. VMWare Fushion. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. This is where I believe VMware is having difficulty in their vision.

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Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Virtualization Allen from Humbled Geeks shows how to create a VMware vSwitch using Ansible. Þórarinn Sigurðsson talks about Garden’s plugin for Pulumi. That’s all for this time!

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Linux Vmware Resources Network 103

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 ).

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Strategy Cloud Vmware Data Center 210

Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This blog series introduces you to Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. Hopefully, these optimizations will be just as good to administrators of physical machines as to a virtual environment utilizing Nutanix Frame®, Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops, or VMware Horizon®.

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Windows Vmware Operating Systems Virtualization 26

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS).

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

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.

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Storage Vmware Architecture Operating Systems 83

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 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.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

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 recently learned that you can modify macOS’ PAM configuration to use Touch ID for sudo. That’s handy.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. Programming.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Curious about what a JWT is?

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

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. Virtualization. Start with part 1, which is here.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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. Virtualization.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

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. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. Operating Systems/Applications I started being a fan of Basic Apple Guy a while ago, and I use some of his wallpapers on my Mac and my mobile devices. (I’m

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. For those of us in the IT field, we are definitely living in interesting times.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

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). Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. At least, I hope so.)

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

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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Vmware Storage Linux 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'

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Vmware Engineering Comparison Virtualization 91

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS).

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

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. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Tiago Sousa writes about Amplemarket’s use of Pulumi to deal with growing pains. Daniel Karnutsch shares an ideal Azure Kubernetes Cluster configuration. Got (or getting) a new Mac?

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Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Operating Systems/Applications. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. Virtualization. Here’s one such example.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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

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. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. At least, I hope so.)

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. Virtualization.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Virtualization Steven Bright shows readers how to back up their VMware ESXi TPM encryption recovery keys. Cool to see Koyeb release a Pulumi provider, so that you can use Pulumi programs to interact with Koyeb.

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