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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful in this collection!

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. Frank Denneman has a nice post on using an OS X system to manage your vSphere environment. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 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. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Vmware Devops 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk. Sam McGeown discusses deploying ECMP with NSX for a provider logical router. Have a look at the article for more details.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. While I’m a bit short on links in some areas, hopefully this is outweighed by some good content in other areas. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Is there really a problem with vendors labeling hardware as VMware Ready and it not actually being certified/validated as VMware Ready? Enough of that, though…bring on the content! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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. Servers/Hardware. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57.

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. The first part of this article does a great job of describing some of the key forces that are shaping the networking industry. Thanks Mike!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60