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Book review: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint

24 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve was curious to learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS, so I decided to read a new book from Packt, released on Feb 2024, with the title: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure. The book is also available on Amazan at this link. It explores some use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure.

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Type of vSphere Guest OS Customization engines for Linux VM

21 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings. Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names. For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines: But which one is used and which could be preferred?

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How to disable cloud-init on Ubuntu Server

15 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesCloud-init is a powerful configuration tools used in several Linux distributions, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase. There are two different approach to disable cloud-init.

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What is SONiC?

14 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSoftware for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. SONiC is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud: is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation).

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Linux Kernel 6.8 released

10 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLinus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.8, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel that introduces several new features and improvements. This will be the last mainline kernel to have less than ten million git objects (there are 9.996 million objects overall!).

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Scality survey: IT leaders rely on immutable storage to protect data from ransomware attacks

6 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 5 minutesScality,a global leader in reliable, secure and sustainable data storage software, today announced the results of a survey of 500 IT decision-makers across France, Germany, the UK and the US to gain insight into the role immutable data storage plays in an organisation’s overall cybersecurity strategy. Key findings reveal:

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What is a DPU / SmartNIC?

2 Marzo 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutesA Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a programmable computer processor that is usally tightly integrates a general-purpose CPU with network interface card (NIC) hardware. Sometimes they are called “IPUs” (for “Infrastructure Processing Unit”) or “SmartNICs” (because actually they are implemented in some special Network Interface Cards).

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