Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In this post, I’m going to introduce you to the concept of Linux network namespaces. Generally speaking, an installation of Linux shares a single set of network interfaces and routing table entries. If you’re thinking about using network namespaces, be sure your Linux distribution includes support.

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Tech Republic Data Center

JUNE 20, 2017

If neither VirtualBox or VMWare suit your virtual machine needs, Jack Wallen shows you how to get started with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine tool on Linux.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 25, 2014

Welcome to part 12 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I continue the discussion around integration between OpenStack and VMware NSX, and in which I’ll provide more details about how exactly to integrate them. The basic steps look like this: Install the VMware NSX plugin for Neutron. Configure VMware NSX for Neutron.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 7, 2016

Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A number of similarities between Cicada3301 and ALPHV/BlackCat indicates that it could represent a rebrand or offshoot group.

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Network World

JUNE 18, 2024

There was an announcement last year by IBM and VMware regarding support for Watson AI on prem, but with the current trajectory of VMware , it’s hard to say how consequential that solution is today,” Weinberg said. Gartner Research VP Tony Iams said that SUSE not talking about an alternative for VMWare was “maybe a miss in our view.”

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 26, 2016

Critics question foundation's commitment to GPL free software license following changes to by-laws Read More.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process. VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. While it’s written by VMware, it is by no means specific only to VMware and NSX. If you are a VMware shop, then their version of Microsegmentation is for you.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 4, 2015

Creates foundation, secures support from Google, VMware, and Red Hat Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. I believe I’m of the same ilk of the typical traditional VMware enterprise sysadmin. Most Linux admins wouldn’t have too much of a problem installing the solution.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

As part of my migration to Linux as my primary laptop OS, I needed to revisit my choice of virtualization provider. Long-time readers probably know that I was an early adopter of VMware Fusion , starting way back in 2006 with the very first “friends and family” release (before it was even publicly available). VirtualBox ?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2016

In this post, I’m going to walk you through the process I used to build a Vagrant box for Cumulus VX that will work with VMware desktop hypervisors (like VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation ). If you’re not familiar with Cumulus VX, it’s a virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux. This will create a “native” VMware VM.

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Anoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This BDR suite helps you to backup Virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and Physical (Windows/Linux Server & Workstation) environments. Vembu technologies recently announced the latest update to their Vembu BDR Suite V3.9.1 Vembu BDR suite V3.9.1 Update 1 supports vSphere 6.7. What is Vembu BDR Suite?

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

VMWare Fushion. Other methods to run Windows on ARM-based Macs could include virtualization using apps like VMWare or Parallels, but these won’t be supported by Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation technology. Apple did demonstrate Parallels Desktop running Linux in a virtual machine, but there was no mention of Windows support.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2016

News emerged today that Open vSwitch (OVS) has formally moved over to the Linux Foundation. The project can finally shed itself of the (unfair) claims that the governance under Nicira (and later VMware) wasn’t “open enough.” For more information, refer to the official Linux Foundation press release.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In this post, I’ll outline the steps necessary to install the VMware Horizon client for Linux on Fedora 27. Although VMware provides an “install bundle,” the bundle does not, unfortunately, address any of the prerequisites that are necessary in order for the Horizon client to work. 1 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 23, 2018

In early 2017 I kicked off an effort to start using Linux as my primary desktop OS, and I blogged about the journey. I restarted the migration in April 2018 (when I left VMware to join Heptio), and since that time I’ve been using Linux ( Fedora , specifically) full-time. Final Linux Distro Selection.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2018

I recently had a need to revisit the use of Cumulus VX (the Cumulus Networks virtual appliance running Cumulus Linux) in a Vagrant environment, and I wanted to be sure to test what I was doing on multiple virtualization platforms. Unfortunately, there’s a simple error in the VMware-formatted box that prevents it from working.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

THREAT REPORT: Exposing Malware in Linux-Based Multi-Cloud Environments 90% of cloud runs on Linux. Based on research conducted by the VMware Threat Analysis Unit, this report. Based on research conducted by the VMware Threat Analysis Unit, this report.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 31, 2017

In my Linux migration initial progress report , I provided an early assessment of the Linux distribution that I thought I would use moving forward. Since that time, though, I’ve pivoted a bit and selected a different Linux distribution as the operating system (OS) for my primary laptop moving forward.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. Linux Distribution. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

90% of cloud runs on Linux, but current countermeasures are focused on addressing Windows-based threats, leaving multi-cloud deployments vulnerable to attacks. Based on research conducted by VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit, this eBook uncovers the unique characteristics of remote access tools.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. In April 2022, Microsoft turned the project over to the Linux Foundation and its 450,000 developers. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC? We should see SONiC continue to extend into new use cases.”

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Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

More AI platform news Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform : Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is aimed at making it easier and cheaper for enterprises to deploy generative AI technologies with open-source tools sets and models.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, I’ve stepped up my work on a Linux migration, and I’m happy to report that I’ve made some progress. Linux Distribution. I’ve looked at a fair number of Linux distributions. I also went back and looked again at Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint. Here’s a quick update on where things stand so far.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 3, 2013

According to a VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast on October 8th (at around the 23 minute mark) vCenter Appliance now has feature parity with vCenter Server for Windows and is now fully supported. I recently had a buddy call me about an issue he was having with vCenter in an all Linux environment. Virtualization VMWare vSphere'

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

SGB-SMIT’s multi-cloud ambitions have been made possible using VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine. Together, these enable SGB-SMIT to lift, shift, and scale its VMware applications to the cloud of its choice, anywhere in the world. . Within six months, Schibsted was able to shut down over 350 servers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

Welcome to part 11 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I provide a high-level overview of the basics on integrating VMware NSX into an OpenStack deployment using OpenStack Neutron. VMware NSX was designed to be integrated into a cloud management platform. Reviewing OpenStack Neutron With NSX.

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Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. Ben Armstrong shows how here. Technology Short Take #29.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. The future, Verplanke believes, is fully virtualized network devices.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. VMware addressed this potential issue with a feature called BPDU Filter.

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