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

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Who would have thought that one day you’d refer to a Microsoft web site for instructions on configuring something in Linux? John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk. Read this post.)

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Operating Systems/Applications. One of the big news items from this past week was the announcement at MS Ignite of the commercial partnership between Microsoft and Docker. Enough of that, though…bring on the content! Networking. followed by a quick 2.4.1

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. 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. Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Operating Systems/Applications. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. Mark Russinovich, CTO for Microsoft Azure, has a long but informative article on the union of Docker containers, Windows Server, and Hyper-V. Simple, but effective.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 60