Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Although it’s not feature-complete (by a long shot), VMware recently open-sourced version 0.1 via VMware Photon OS TP2. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). Diego Crespo talks about PowerShell on Linux and his experience with it. If you’re into the VMware homelab thing (and I know quite a few folks are), then William’s article on interesting homelab kits for 2023 might be right up your alley. Wonder no longer.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

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). Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. Ivan Pepelnjak speaks frankly about VMware Cloud on AWS.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 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. Servers/Hardware. I must confess I hadn’t considered the idea of using Terraform to manage GitHub. Virtualization.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux?

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

IPv6 support. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Monitoring of LAN, WAN, VPN, and distributed sites. Extensive event logging. Monitoring without agents. Flexible Alerts. Various user interfaces. Failover Cluster: fault tolerance. Maps and dashboards: visualization and control panels. Distributed monitoring. Detailed reports.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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Linux Firewall Windows Architecture 60