Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Denise Fishburne has a 7-part series on IPv6. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. But enough with the introduction—let’s get into the content!

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Going to be at VMworld and want to give back to the community?

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Vmware Devops 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? Virtualization. This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 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. It sounds pretty handy if you’re a combined VMware-Puppet shop.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 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

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. Virtualization. Ivan Pepelnjak speaks frankly about VMware Cloud on AWS.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot of VMware-focused folks aren’t particularly comfortable. There’s a reason I’m mentioning all of this.

Network 87

Network Vmware Internet Media 87

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. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Virtualization. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Virtualization. William also has a great post on migrating ESXi to a Distributed Virtual Switch with a single NIC running vCenter Server (how’s that for a mouthful?). Welcome to Technology Short Take #57. I hope you find something useful here!

Firewall 60

Firewall Linux Windows Architecture 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. IPv6 support. Bandwidth monitoring using SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, packet sniffing. Application monitoring. Web monitoring. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Environmental monitoring. Extensive event logging.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 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. Virtualization. Good advice. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60