Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Featured Modular Articles.

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Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

This temporary nature would have us assume that storage would be difficult to manage. Kubernetes allows you to natively create and manage storage decoupled from pods. On your Linux Academy homepage, click on Playground. In order to provide storage to our pods, we have to place the disk in the same region as our cluster.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Government.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GB of RAM and 15 GB of storage, making it ideal for reviving old PCs or for those looking to try a lightweight operating system. release is powered by Linux Kernel 6.8. Read Entire Article Zorin OS requires only 1.5 The most recent 17.2

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Linux Operating Systems Storage System 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

One of the cool things about libvirt is the ability to work with multiple hypervisors and virtualization technologies, including Linux containers using LXC. If you aren’t familiar with Linux containers and LXC, I invite you to have a look at my introductory post on Linux containers and LXC.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In reality, OVS relies on the routing functionality that’s built into the Linux kernel, as you’ll see, and doesn’t perform the routing functionality itself (as far as I have been able to determine).</aside> Enable IP routing in the Linux kernel. Enabling IP Forwarding in the Linux Kernel. ip_forward=1.

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Linux Virtualization Network Examples 141

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Over the last few days, I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to get Open vSwitch (OVS) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 (as The rationale behind this is that RHEL/CentOS are the sort of battle-tested, well-supported Linux distributions that enterprises will (and do) deploy in their data centers. as well as CentOS 6.3).

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Enterprise Enterprise Linux Virtualization 122

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2012

In a previous article , I talked about how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) fake bridges to bring VLAN support into your environment. In this article, I show you how to wrap a libvirt virtual network around your OVS fake bridge. First, create the appropriate OVS fake bridges using the instructions in this article.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important. is already with us.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 5, 2013

If you want to read a masterpiece of an article describing how OpenStack Quantum works with Open vSwitch (OVS) and the OVS plugin, this write-up by Florian Otel should be your first stop. how each of these components leverages different Linux network namespaces to accomplish their tasks.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Linux Academy

MAY 15, 2020

This article will give you the full lowdown on Windows Containers, to prepare you to do just that. First, I want to acknowledge that there is a big difference between Linux and Windows containers. Linux containers have been around for many decades, in one form or another. It does NOT run Linux Containers. Why Windows?

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

This temporary nature would have us assume that storage would be difficult to manage. Kubernetes allows you to natively create and manage storage decoupled from pods. On your Linux Academy homepage, click on Playground. In order to provide storage to our pods, we have to place the disk in the same region as our cluster.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

The year seems to be flying by—much in the same way that all these technical articles keep flying by my Inbox, occasionally getting caught and included here! More details are available in this Zero Day article. A colleague shared this article on CPU limits and throttling in Kubernetes. Wow, is it the middle of May already?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Mirantis published an article discussing a framework they built for bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack that allows OpenStack to place workloads onto bare-metal nodes instead of onto a hypervisor. I don’t have anything for this area this time around, but I’ll stay alert for articles to add next time. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 15, 2013

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. General Linux Automation Puppet' I’ll select two winners at random at noon MDT this Friday, July 19 from among all submitted comments. Getting Hiera Working.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 2, 2013

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Interoperability Linux ActiveDirectory Kerberos LDAP SSH' Once the security context had been reset, the Kerberos authentication via SSH worked as expected.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 15, 2013

In this post, I want to provide some additional insight on how the use of Open vSwitch (OVS) affects—or doesn’t affect, in some cases—how a Linux host directs traffic through physical interfaces, OVS internal interfaces, and OVS bridges. The host is running Linux with KVM, libvirt, and OVS installed.

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Linux Travel Network Storage 127

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. ” I highly encourage reading this article.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 24, 2022

Twenty years ago, I'd be saving this article to my local hard drive with a USB stick backup. Today, I'm saving it automatically to Google Drive and my Linux-based NextCloud instance on my TMD Hosting server back in Chicago. To read this article in full, please click here As it happens, that's what I'm doing right now.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I still have a lot to learn about OpenFlow and networking, but this article from June of last year (it appears to have been written by Ivan Pepelnjak) discusses some of the potential scalability concerns around early versions of the OpenFlow protocol. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Technology Short Take #29.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2023

NovaBench includes tests for CPU, GPU, memory, and storage. It is compatible with most operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Apple Arm-powered systems. Read Entire Article

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Linux Academy

MAY 2, 2019

In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Optimizing storage into frequently accessed hot storage, versus infrequently accessed cold storage.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 84

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Macintosh iPhone Linux' It’s a shame…but such is life. The only constant is change. Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS.

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 1, 2014

CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. systemd is not unique to CoreOS; it is the new standard system and service manager for Linux. A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC.

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Linux Applications Open Source System 104

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Networking.

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Linux Academy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

For storage-intensive workloads, AWS Customers will have an opportunity to use smaller instance sizes and still meet EBS-optimized instance performance requirements, thereby saving costs. Another exciting announcement was the Amazon Builder’s Library: a collection of published articles providing insight into how Amazon operates at scale.

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Linux Open Source Programming Data 19

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? What Intel has been working on is replace the VirtIO drivers with DPDK-enabled VirtIO drivers, and use DPDK to replace the Linux bridging utilities with a DPDK-enabled forwarding application.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

I love this quote from that article: “The second misnomer is, flow based forwarding does not scale. I’m looking forward to the fourth and final article in the series! Next, he tackles the concerns over the scale of flow-based forwarding in his post on coarse vs. fine flows. Bad designs are what do not scale.”

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 22, 2013

This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Trying a New Linux Distribution. Linux CLI OSS' You should then be able to install those RPMs onto a CentOS 6.3 Using Mock to Build Sanlock 2.4

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Linux Groups Storage Tools 110

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC.

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