Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Tom Kravitz' article on how IBM lost the public cloud war is a fascinating look at the internals of a former technology powerhouse. AWS recently announced the Cloud Control API. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. with more memory or CPU), a different operating system (e.g., Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon DynamoDB â??

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Operating Systems Cloud 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. Also from Cody is this post talking about using the CIS Ansible role to apply the CIS benchmark against CentOS/RHEL systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Alberto Pellitteri with Sysdig discusses SCARLETEEL , an operation conducted by an attacker that leveraged many of the tools found in modern cloud environments: Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Want/need to better understand IPv6? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I want to be like Ivan when I grow up. Denise Fishburne has you covered.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you’re able to find something useful here! Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches).

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches).

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

This should probably go in the “Cloud Computing/Cloud Management” section, but the boundaries between areas are getting more and more blurry every day. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps group recently released v0.8 Operating Systems/Applications. via VMware Photon OS TP2.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you’ve deployed the vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX, there’s an option to enable Log Insight integration as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Enough of that, though…bring on the content! As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. That’s pretty handy.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Windows 60

Windows Linux Firewall Architecture 60