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. Virtualization. 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). Virtualization Frank Denneman discusses simulating NUMA nodes for nested ESXi virtual appliances. Rob Novak shares his experience in replacing Meraki with TP-Link Omada. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking. Wonder no longer.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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. Virtualization.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Vmware Devops 60

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. Virtualization. I hope you’re able to find something useful here! Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Want/need to better understand IPv6? Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. 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.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Operating Systems/Applications. Jason Anderson has a nice post on using SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) to expose Docker containers. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Windows 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). and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Docker Swarm with IPv6? Virtualization. This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. on Kubernetes, which does make a fair amount of sense. of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). via VMware Photon OS TP2.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 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. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #57.

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. I came across this article that shows Red Hat is allowing Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) to use/leverage OpenStack Neutron networks, thus allowing OpenStack and non-OpenStack workloads to easily communicate with one another. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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 begins with a unified software stack integrated at the operating system level rather than bolted together with APIs.

Network 140

Network Enterprise Enterprise WAN 140

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60