Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe's Blog One of my projects over the recent holiday was to rebuild the home network. Working on a home network is a different sort of beast than working on a network for a company. There are different challenges to be addressed. After research, I settled on the use of Ub... (more)

Scott Lowe's Blog The way to really view VMware Virtual Datacenter OS (VDC-OS) is not as a “datacenter OS”, because it’s not intended to provide automation of non-virtual resources. Instead, look at VDC-OS as a framework. Within this framework are sets of services that can be ext... (more)

Scott Lowe's Blog There appear to be basically two views on how virtualization will affect the future development of operating systems and computing environments in the personal computing space. One camp believes that virtualization functionality will be present within the operat... (more)

Scott Lowe's Blog VMware has released version 3.0 of Lab Manager. This lab automation software, primarily targeted at software development and QA environments, now brings greater integration with VirtualCenter. While I haven’t had the chance to fully review the release notes and ... (more)

Scott Lowe's Blog In The Four Horsemen of the Virtualization Security Apocalypse, Chris Hoff shines a great big spotlight on the dark side of virtualization security (or virtsec, as its increasingly being known). To quote from Hoff’s article: "Short of the notions I’... (more)

Scott Lowe's Blog What I had hoped to be able to publish today would be an article describing how to configure and use ESX's software iSCSI initiator as a failover path for Fibre Channel, so that if the Fibre Channel fabric completely failed VM traffic would automatically failove... (more)