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). Virtualization. This event looks interesting. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Virtualization Talk about a blast from the past! —an operating system I myself ran in the mid-1990s before switching to Windows NT—as a virtual machine on VMware ESXi.

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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.

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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. Virtualization. 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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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). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Virtualization.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

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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. Virtualization. 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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Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Michael Armstrong, an SE for VMware in the UK, has a write-up on how to configure DHCP Relay in NSX 6.1. No worries, Emad Younis has a write-up on using Ravello to try out VMware Integrated OpenStack. (If Virtualization.

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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). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Virtualization.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 24, 2018

Operational changes that shift from data center ownership and physical management toward the virtual management of IT services from data centers owned by AWS, Azure, IBM and Hosted VMware providers. Agile and Waterfall management models, toward fully automated DevOps. What’s Driving Innovation?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Security.

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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). Virtualization. Check out Thomas Maurer’s post on the announcement.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Virtualization. I really enjoyed this article by Jon Hall on the Andon cord and ITSM’s DevOps challenge.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

backup BC and DR big data Cloud converged convergence Data and Information Management database DCIM Education I/O Networking Infrastructure Resource Management IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics Lab report little data metrics object storage Performance and Capacity perspective post Power and Cooling server Site related ssd Storage and Storage (..)

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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. Virtualization. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Kim Wuestkamp discusses a change in Kubernetes 1.24

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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. Virtualization. Good stuff here!

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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). Virtualization. Spend time with your family instead. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

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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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.” Virtualization. Way to go, Daniel!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

Nick starts his discussion on technology efficiency with a discussion of DevOps, and what DevOps means. Although a number of technologies are involved to deal with the ever-increasing complexity and density that has emerged, DevOps is really about a culture change. That lead to “automagically configured” web services (PaaS).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

An operations full-stack engineer can read code, work with developers, and be part of a DevOps team of support DevOps teams in deploying code into production both to on-premises solutions and off-premises solutions. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere). AWS (10x the size of all competitors), Joyent.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Virtualization. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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. Virtualization. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I won’t repeat the entire article here; go read it.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. Check it out on GitHub. That’s handy.

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

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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. Virtualization. Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 15, 2019

My job encompasses supporting Linux and VMware on physical servers. I think we have close to 1600 virtual instances at any given time, spread across two data centers separated by 10 miles. Virtualization was a big one. Let’s say you want to take a VMware certification test. We have 2 main AWS initiatives right now.

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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. Virtualization. Toni Willberg provides a set of instructions for running Fedora 26 on Azure. Shawn Hartsock shows how to build SSHFS on Photon OS. No worries, Andreas Wittig has you covered.

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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.

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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).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Virtualization. William also has a great post on migrating ESXi to a Distributed Virtual Switch with a single NIC running vCenter Server (how’s that for a mouthful?). I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr. on an Apple Xserve 3,1.

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