Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

The security researchers assembled at the Pwn2Own 2017 hacking competition , sponsored by Trend Micro, and occasionally grouped together, then performed essentially zero-day exploits (at least by the rules, heretofore unknown) on your favorite stuff, such as Windows, MacOS and Linux.

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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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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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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

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. So, the “typical” administrator will have strong Windows skills. I believe I’m of the same ilk of the typical traditional VMware enterprise sysadmin.

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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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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.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 12, 2014

Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others).

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 11, 2013

If you only read sources like Forbes you’d think every enterprise runs on AWS, has a ton of developers and have completely abandoned Windows. Linux is obviously a major force in the enterprise but traditional enterprises haven’t stopped deploying Windows Server 2012/2008 or 2003 for that matter. General Virtualization'

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2015

Hyper-V - Could Docker Support Be Significant,” in which he contemplates whether Microsoft’s announcement of Docker support on Windows will be a factor in the hypervisor battle between ESXi and Hyper-V. Naturally, it’s worth pointing out that I work for VMware, although I do work in a business unit that makes a multi-hypervisor product (NSX).

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JANUARY 29, 2024

Open-source multi-platform device management vendor Fleet recently introduced Windows support to its existing software, which already enables IT to manage Linux and Apple devices within a single console.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL and Overview. Microsoft has been increasing their support of Linux across Azure public cloud, Hyper-V and Linux Integration Services (LIS) and Windows platforms including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as Server along with Docker support.

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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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Linux Report Vmware Travel 60

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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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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Linux Report Hardware Windows 60

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. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

Nikhil shares a framework for selecting a Linux distribution. José Ignacio Amelivia Santiago takes readers on a detailed walkthrough of setting up Arch Linux on a new Framework 13 AMD-based laptop. Here’s a list of “crisis tools” recommended to install on your Linux servers before you need them.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Macintosh iPhone Linux' Why I Might Leave OS X. Apple on Intel.

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The challenge, says Bernard Golden, executive technical advisor at VMware, is how to make sure sensitive corporate data is protected and kept out of the general pool that makes up LLM databases. Linthicum adds that generative AI-based apps will be “costly to run,” so “CIOs need to find the proper use cases for this technology.”

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

announcement big data convergence I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics little data metrics Performance and Capacity perspective post server ssd Storage and Storage Management Tools Storage Architecture and Access tools virtualization cache FLASH iop linux pcie Performance SSD storage storage i/o vmware Windows'

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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

JANUARY 2, 2017

Sublime Text supports OS X, Linux, and Windows. I don’t have any Windows-based systems, so I only use it on OS X and Linux. I’m currently using Wire on Linux and OS X, with plans to extend to iOS and Android. VirtualBox: VirtualBox supports Linux, OS X, and Windows, providing one solution for hosted virtualization.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. For instance, there was the whole Windows vs. automobile industry meme that was going around a few years ago. Hypervisors should be treated the same as Linux and Windows management.

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A UEFI flaw , affecting both Windows and Linux, that leverages malicious images? Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Virtualization Allen from Humbled Geeks shows how to create a VMware vSwitch using Ansible. Security Undetectable cryptomining technique on Azure ?

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Linux Vmware Resources Network 110

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some FCSA ssd cache questions and perspectives What […].

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While Microsoft Windows Server recently celebrated its 20th birthday (or anniversary), a lot has changed as well as evolved. This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. The post Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. So useful.).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. General KVM Linux Networking OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet RedHat SDN Security Storage Virtualization VMware vSphere' Interested in some OpenStack inception? How about some oVirt inception?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Using a Linux Environment. It’s no secret that I use OS X, and the toolchain that the OpenStack documentation team uses is—like the rest of OpenStack—pretty heavily biased toward Linux. It wasn’t until just recently that I realized: why not just use a Linux VM? on Amazon EC2 (via Ravello Systems).

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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. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Here’s a great way.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Here’s a great way.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It’s for this reason that I recently made VirtualBox —not VMware Fusion —my primary virtualization provider for Vagrant environments. I know it seems odd for a VMware employee to use/prefer a non-VMware product over a competing VMware product. Yep, it can do that too. For me, it’s simply the right tool for the job.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. VMware addressed this in an earlier post.

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