Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Why I Might Leave OS X.

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

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Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Servers/Hardware. It will be interesting to see how the support of a “Tier 1″ hardware vendor like HP affects the adoption of ARM in the enterprise. Good post, Nick.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 123

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Speaking of Puppet and hardware, I also saw a mention on Twitter about a Puppet module that will manage the configuration of a NetApp filer. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 134

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. You can think VMware vSphere but with a GUI. I was close in my prediction.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

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. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git. Surely there will be something useful in here for you!

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. 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.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 97

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . Bare metal virtualization runs virtualization software installed directly on hardware.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

First up, Jason goes off on a rant about network virtualization , briefly hitting topics like the relationship between overlays and hardware, the role of hardware in network virtualization, the changing roles of data center professionals, and whether overlays are the next logical step in the evolution of the network. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. For instance, in the case of hardware, we may have a single pane of glass to monitor hardware related events. I’ve also seen how difficult it is to manage both the product and operations model.

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Virtualization.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Pulumi lets its customers apply modern software development practices to what has traditionally been a cumbersome or manual process of provisioning, configuring and updating the underlying hardware and software for running applications. It sells multi-user and enterprise plans in a software-as-a-service model.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This post brings up an interesting change that occurred in recent versions of VMware Tools—the GUI is greatly diminished, instead requiring that you use a command-line tool to change things like time synchronization settings. Mounting guest disk images on the host?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Is it necessary?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently released version 0.8 Operating Systems/Applications. Highly recommended reading! Good stuff. What is Platypus?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source.

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Vmware Storage Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware' Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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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. Juan Manuel Rey walks you through applying a patch to your VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) environment.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Via Russ White , RFC 9199 was drawn to my attention (“Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. What do I have in store for you this time around?

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Linux Virtualization Storage Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January). Servers/Hardware. VMware recently published a case study describing how Rackspace used VMware NSX to quickly meet new PCI DSS compliance goals. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s pretty cool stuff. Virtualization.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Tom has since moved on to CSC (via the vCHS team at VMware) and has launched a “next-generation” version of Razor called Hanlon. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 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. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ).

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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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Vincent Bernat provides some feedback on Cisco pyATS and Genie Parser. are affected). See more details here.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since that time, though, I’ve pivoted a bit and selected a different Linux distribution as the operating system (OS) for my primary laptop moving forward. were as follows: Hardware support. Fedora, on the other hand, doesn’t run quite as well on Apple hardware. In this post, I’d like to describe why I selected Fedora.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 20, 2013

They include Novell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco. Microsoft is getting assaulting on many fronts and no longer has a self haven in Server, Desktop Productivity or even desktop operating systems. VMware is being challenged by all people Microsoft along with KVM, OpenStack and AWS. General Cisco Microsoft Novell VMWare'

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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