Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2014

The vEOS disk image, provided as a VMware VMDK. Further, although the vEOS disk image is provided as a VMware VMDK, KVM/QEMU is perfectly capable of using the VMDK without any conversion required (this is kind of nice). (A Linux Containers via LXC and Libvirt. Interoperability Linux Networking Virtualization KVM Libvirt OVS'

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Virtualization Linux Network Vmware 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Alpine Linux 3.5 Way to go, Daniel!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2016

For example, you might feel “locked in” to Microsoft (via Office or Windows) or “locked in” to Oracle (via their database platform or applications), or even “locked in” to VMware through vCenter and vSphere. They might have various levels of lock-in, but lock-in exists everywhere: Linux has lock-in. What about backups?

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Vmware Linux Oracle Backup 60

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Sure you can go to a manufactures website and look at the speeds and feeds (technical performance numbers) however are those metrics applicable to your environments applications or workload?

Storage 40

Storage Vmware Devops Backup 40

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

VMware has a similar offering via the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service recovery-as-a-service offering. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Network Disaster Recovery 60

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

lightweight Nano, full data center with desktop interface, on-premise, bare metal, virtualized (Hyper-V, VMware, etc) as well as cloud). Not only are the support for those environments and platforms enhanced, so to are the management capabilities and interfaces from Powershell to Bash linux shell being part of WIndows 10 and Server 2016.

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Storage Windows Microsoft Linux 40

Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

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Vmware Microsoft Data Center Dell 58

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. What to Monitor. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. Windows and WMI performance counters.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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. Vormetric interested me because they offer a data encryption product, and I was interested to see how—if at all—they integrated with VMware vSphere.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Firshman shows off the use of the VMware Fusion driver for Docker Machine so that he can deploy some containers defined via Docker Compose to run/test the application on his local laptop. To provide independent governance, Docker is partnering with the Linux Foundation to create the Open Container Project, which will govern OCF.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters. And it’s free.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters. And it’s free.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52