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. Here’s one way , using Ravello Systems. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Nick Buraglio discusses IPv6 Unique Local Addressing (ULA). William Lam shares news about higher-capacity SODIMMs available for small or ultra small form factor systems. 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

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies. It is the ultimate incrementally scalable system; simply by adding resources it can handle scaling needs in storage and performance dimensions. All Things Distributed.

Storage 65

Storage Cloud IPv6 System 65

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. Operating Systems/Applications. I’ve still been collecting links to share with you, though, and here’s the latest collection. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? Operating Systems/Applications. If you work with TextFSM templates (see here for more information), then you might also like this post on writing a vim syntax plugin for TextFSM templates. Denise Fishburne has you covered. Denise also has you covered if you need BGP knowledge.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 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. Here’s a “back to the basics” post with an explanation of what an init system is (uses Fedora as an example). Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

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. Here’s a “back to the basics” post with an explanation of what an init system is (uses Fedora as an example). Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? is out (get it here ), marking the first LTS release from Canonical that leverages systemd as its init system. Frank Denneman has a nice post on using an OS X system to manage your vSphere environment. of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 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). Operating Systems/Applications. I recently used a variation of the information in this article to keep OTR private keys in sync among a group of OS X-based systems. Networking. RIP Solaris.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

focused on IPv6 support, plus enhanced integrations with ServiceNow and Cisco. From the judge The shift from manual to automated processes leveraging AI is top-of-mind for network operators. It reads and updates ticket data from the ITSM system in real time to enable automated incident resolution.

Network 88

Network Enterprise Enterprise WAN 88

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. The new filesystem is called LCFS, or Layer Cloning File System, and you can get more details on LCFS via its GitHub repository. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This page on the Wireguard site has full instructions for a variety of operating systems. In my case, I had three different systems from which I wanted VPN access, so there needed to be three separate [Peer] sections. (You can also install the wireguard meta-package, if you’d prefer.)

Linux 78

Linux Network IPv6 Tools 78

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. Skyport Systems recently said VMware’s Goldilocks project is lost in the woods. Operating Systems/Applications. Enough of that, though…bring on the content! Networking. This seems like a really nice approach.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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. Cody Bunch has a short (but sweet) post on how using depends_on in OpenStack Heat templates allows you to specify the start-up order of instances created by that template.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60