Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. I said a LONG TIME ago that Windows 8 should be a hypervisor based OS. One of the great features of Windows 8 that hasn’t gotten much attention has been that it’s a Type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?), Operating Systems/Applications. Time will tell. An 8TB NVMe drive?

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Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 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. Servers/Hardware. or higher).

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a question I get all the time is “Have I missed the boat on VMware?” But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. They didn’t compete for customers but they did compete for system engineering talent. General Cisco OpenStack SDN VMWare'

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Vmware Engineering Comparison Virtualization 91

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

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. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Here’s a three-part series on running VMware NSX on vSphere on AWS via Ravello Systems ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. For instance, there was the whole Windows vs. automobile industry meme that was going around a few years ago. I’ve also seen how difficult it is to manage both the product and operations model.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Keep an eye on among others including Cisco (Servers), Dell (Servers), EMC (DSSD), HPE, Intel (Servers, Drives and Cards), Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft (Drivers, Operating Systems, Storage Spaces), NetApp, OCZ, Oracle, PMC, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Western Digital (acquisition of SANdisk and HGST).

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Vmware Dell Oracle Operating Systems 40

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Although it’s not called out in the article, it’s important to note that this is not supported by VMware.). to VMware NSX 6.2.5 Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 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. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7,

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January). VMware recently published a case study describing how Rackspace used VMware NSX to quickly meet new PCI DSS compliance goals. Operating Systems/Applications. Guido Hagemann provides a very thorough article on VMware ESXi claim rules.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. This is a great article on using jq with kubectl.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It’s a toolkit, part of the Moby Project, that is used for building secure, portable, and lean operating systems for containers. It uses the moby tooling to build system images. Linux containers on Windows (LCOW) preview support. Multi-arch build system. Fully immutable system images.

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Linux Architecture Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

This could be bad—a wormable vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code by exploiting potentially any Windows application protocol that provides authentication, including (potentially) SMTP or HTTP. Operating Systems/Applications. Get more details in this article. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Operating Systems/Applications. This post reminds me that I need to write up the procedure I followed to get the Prometheus Operator scraping metrics from a TLS-secured etcd cluster bootstrapped using kubeadm.).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Jeff Geerling walks you through how to use Ansible via Windows 10’s Subsystem for Linux. Based on Jeff’s description, it sounds like the Subsystem for Linux is essentially nothing more than an Ubuntu VM running on Windows 10. Frank Denneman—now back at VMware (welcome back, Frank!)—has

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. Blake Garner shares a Packer template for macOS 11 on VMware Fusion.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Operating Systems/Applications. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Way to go, Daniel!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). William Lam has a series of posts on VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS), which at the time of this writing was up to 4 posts in the series.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 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. Run Windows containers on the Mac. With the recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems by Docker Inc.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. This is a great article on using jq with kubectl.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Very handy!

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

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. See part 1 and part 2 for the full details.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Only two posts so far (but very thorough posts), one on setting up VMware NSX and another on logical networking with VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Hang on tight, this will be an interesting ride!

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

At my new job, I have the option to use any operating system (OS), and I naturally gravitated toward Linux. On my new Lenovo, I installed a pre-release testing version of Debian “Stretch” (the next major version of Debian) after creating a recovery disk for the installation of Windows 10 Pro that came on the laptop.

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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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