CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

That way the group that added too many fancy features that need too much storage and server time will have to account for their profligacy. Densify’s optimizers focus on cloud resources such as instances, Kubernetes clusters, and VMware machines. The good programmers who don’t use too much RAM and disk space can be rewarded.

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Tools Cloud Budget Vmware 290

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We It’s all important.”

Data Center 130

Data Center Government Vmware Data 130

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

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). Want to understand the differences between the block and NAS implementations of VAAI?

Storage 125

Storage Vmware Virtualization WAN 125

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

Storage 40

Storage Vmware Devops Backup 40

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

Storage Steven Sklar explains how CSI (Container Storage Interface) works. —an operating system I myself ran in the mid-1990s before switching to Windows NT—as a virtual machine on VMware ESXi. Virtualization Talk about a blast from the past! William Lam discusses running a prerelease version of OS/2 2.0—an

Linux 110

Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.) Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jim Counts’ beginner’s guide to Pulumi CI/CD pipelines provides an overview of Pulumi and a guide on using it with Azure DevOps. Note: this article is a couple years old, so keep that in mind—some things may have changed with both Pulumi and Azure DevOps since this article was published.). Virtualization.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.) Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 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. The Fusion team at VMware recently blogged about an issue with port forwarding on NAT networks ; the blog post has a workaround for the issue.

Vmware 60

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). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. 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.” You’re done. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 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. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Good stuff here! Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I also recently discovered Anaïs Urlichs’ weekly-but-not-so-weekly Seven-Day DevOps newsletter , which—like the rest of her site—has some great information. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Colin shares a critical learning item on using Terraform with VMware ESXi.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

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. The Fusion team at VMware recently blogged about an issue with port forwarding on NAT networks ; the blog post has a workaround for the issue.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 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). .” I found this pair of articles on DevOps in straight English to be helpful. Virtualization.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Vmware Intel 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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.” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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). Check out Thomas Maurer’s post on the announcement. It’s the end of an era.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 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. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge. Servers/Hardware. RegEx tester. Enough said.

Windows 60

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

Windows 60

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).

Devops 60

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).

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. 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). No, I mean I really am kidding—don’t read stuff over the holidays.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. Virtualization Steven Bright shows readers how to back up their VMware ESXi TPM encryption recovery keys. Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Greg Schulz—who normally tends to focus on storage-related topics—has a post providing an overview of the Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” release.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

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

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

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. Lior Kamrat has an article on securing Azure Container Registry for CI/CD pipelines using Azure service principals. Virtualization.

Resources 60

Resources Network Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. The big VMware launch event was on February 2, and among the announcements was vSphere 6.0. Networking. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. Of course, the idea of a “DevOps” role is a topic unto itself, but I’ll leave that for some future article.). Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Jeff Geerling—author of Ansible for DevOps —has a post on how various Ansible configuration files may conflict with one another. Next week is VMworld in Las Vegas, NV, and I’ll be there live-blogging the keynotes (no sessions though, unfortunately—VMware employees generally can’t get into sessions).

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Vmware Network 60

Storage IO Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Part V Dell Technology World 2018 Server Converged Announcement Details This is Part V Dell Technology World 2018 Server Converged Announcement Details that is part of a five-post series (view part I here, part II here, part III here and part IV here).

Dell 41

Dell Travel Storage Backup 41

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL and Overview. Microsoft has been increasing their support of Linux across Azure public cloud, Hyper-V and Linux Integration Services (LIS) and Windows platforms including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as Server along with Docker support.

Linux 47

Linux Windows Microsoft Cloud 47

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” 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. Virtualization. on an Apple Xserve 3,1.

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Linux Windows Firewall Architecture 60