Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Virtualization. Interesting.

Storage 125

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 125

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They are intently aware that they no longer have an IT staff that is large enough to manage an increasingly complex compute, networking, and storage environment that includes on-premises, private, and public clouds. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“

System 105

System Enterprise Enterprise Vmware 105

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

Vmware 79

Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 79

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. VMware Cloud Foundation – The Cloud Stack VCF provides enterprises with everything they need to excel in the cloud.

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Vmware 98

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Virtualization.

Vmware 87

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. Ive had employees who were network people but wanted to shift into, say, firewalls, for example. But its not all smooth sailing.

Data Center 173

Data Center Data Energy Programming 173

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. Venky explains it in this post. Virtualization.

HP 113

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. The second major area is storage automation. Cloud Computing Virtualization VMWare vmworld'

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. Johnson shows that the E5 processor provides higher throughput at lower CPU usage with VMDq compared to a Xeon 5500 CPU (tests were done using an Intel X520 with VMware ESXi 5.0).

Intel 115

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware. Similar Posts: IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts.

Virtualization 131

Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 131

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Better patch your vCenter Server instances, as VMware released a security advisory with a long list of CVEs , including one with a severity score of 9.8/10. Networking. are affected).

Open Source 107

Open Source Network Cloud Storage 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. I am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie. This looks interesting.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. It’s obvious I haven’t paid a great deal of attention to the storage space recently.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Read more about it here. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. Butler mentions S3 as potential solutions here, and points out the three tiers of object-based storage: S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent Access, and Amazon Glacier. The Storage Gateway’s storage is backed by S3 and offers a standard iSCSI interface.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. Venky explains it in this post. Virtualization.

HP 68

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. While compute and storage infrastructure have largely aligned with cloud principles and the needs of multicloud environments,” Casemore says, “the network has not kept pace. ”.

CTO 97

CTO Network Cloud Data Center 97

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Tom Scanlan shares how to use VIC volumes as a way of helping address persistent storage challenges with containers. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 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. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). RegEx tester.

Vmware 60

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

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Virtualization Linux 60

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

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage. It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules.

Tools 94

Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Keep up the great work, Brent!) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Duncan Epping walks readers through VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery , which—if I’m reading this correctly—is the evolution of the Datrium product. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

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

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Vmware Devops 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Better patch your vCenter Server instances, as VMware released a security advisory with a long list of CVEs , including one with a severity score of 9.8/10. Networking. are affected).

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Cloud Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. 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. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

In the event you accidentally locked yourself out of vCenter using NSX’s distributed firewall, this post by Roie Ben Haim provides a workaround for getting yourself out of this pickle. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Detailed reports. What to Monitor. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. If you’re interested in learning more about some of the new security features in vSphere 6.5,

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). (I think some other vendors might take issue with that claim.)

Vmware 84

Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 84

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60