Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Mounting guest disk images on the host? Interesting.

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Storage Vmware Virtualization WAN 125

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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. Servers/Hardware. The future of VMware Fusion—and VMware Workstation—as a result of recent VMware layoffs is a topic I leave others to discuss.).

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Servers/Hardware. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 I’ll try to correct that for the next one.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. I found this pair of articles on DevOps in straight English to be helpful.

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Virtualization Hardware Vmware Intel 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

Densify Densify [in inglese ] è basata su una raccolta di strumenti per la gestione dell’infrastruttura cloud attraverso container e istanze VMware. Gli ottimizzatori di Densify si concentrano su risorse cloud come istanze, cluster Kubernetes e macchine VMware. Secondo il vendor, questo approccio migliora la scalabilità del 30%.

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Cloud Dell Tools Budget 130

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. Servers/Hardware. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Career/Soft Skills.

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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. Servers/Hardware. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Career/Soft Skills.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 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. Servers/Hardware. The future of VMware Fusion—and VMware Workstation—as a result of recent VMware layoffs is a topic I leave others to discuss.).

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. Servers/Hardware. Cormac Hogan recently started spending some time with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and shared some of the initial “lessons learned” on this post about “adventures in VIO.” Running vSphere 6?

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. 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). Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Virtualization Steven Bright shows readers how to back up their VMware ESXi TPM encryption recovery keys. Career/Soft Skills Ioannis Moustakis shares 44 books for DevOps, site reliability engineering (SRE), and cloud engineers. to version 8.0. Read his post for full details.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Servers/Hardware. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). 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 Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Servers/Hardware. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Servers/Hardware. Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). Spend time with your family instead. Networking.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption?

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Jorge Castro shares some informal notes on using Clear Linux as an everyday DevOps/cloud-native/Kubernetes client. Patrick Kennedy over at Serve The Home shares the story of the Ultra EPYC AMD-powered Sun Ultra 24 workstation.

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Resources Network Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Jeff Geerling—author of Ansible for DevOps —has a post on how various Ansible configuration files may conflict with one another. That might be a good blog post topic right there!). That’s it for now.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. I’m including it here in the “Career/Soft Skills” section because I think the four questions listed in this article apply to all IT professionals, not just those in “DevOps” roles. (Of What’s that? See here.).

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Servers/Hardware. Paul Gifford has an install script to turn up a complete container lab using VMware AppCatalyst, Docker Machine, Vagrant, Ansible, and Packer. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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Linux Windows Firewall Architecture 60