Amazon's Alexa Prize is Worth $2.5 Million

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CCNP Data Center Question of the Week: UCS 62XX Fabric Interconnect

Which two are true regarding the switching modes on the Cisco UCS 62XX Fabric Interconnect? (Choose two.)

A. End-host mode presents a link to a northbound uplink switch as a host trunk with STP.
B. For northbound traffic, server MAC addresses are statically assigned to an uplink; the return path is controlled by the northbound switch.
C. A FI port in Ethernet switching mode appears to the uplink switch as a host with several MAC addresses.
D. Server-to-server traffic in the same VLAN are locally switched and not sent to the northbound switches.
E. A MAC address table is not used to forward traffic to the uplink switch.
F. A MAC address forwarding table is maintained for server-to-server communications for inter-VLANs communications.

Reveal Answer

Answer: D and E.

The UCS 62XX Fabric Interconnect has two fabrics, Fabric A and Fabric B.  If the servers belong to the Fabric and are on the same VLAN, then traffic is locally switched, an external switch is required for switching between servers if virtual network interface cards (vNICs) belonging to the same VLAN are mapped to different fabrics.  MAC address learning only happens for the server ports, therefore any unknown destination MAC address are sent to the up links.

 

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DevOpsDays Raleigh Draws DevOps Elite

DevOpsDays, the conference that brings development and operations together, is coming to Raleigh. Scheduled for Oct. 6-7 at the McKimmon Center, DevOpsDays Raleigh will be the first of its kind in the Triangle.

At the forefront of collaboration between developers, operations and individuals involved with technology, the first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009. Since then DevOpsDays have occurred worldwide, from Amsterdam to Zurich and Tel Aviv to Cape Town.

Some of the IT industry’s elite will be presenting a broad range of technical topics. Here are some highlights of DevOpsDays Raleigh:

Michael DeHaan

The event kicks off with a morning keynote speech from software developer Michael DeHaan. A graduate of North Carolina State University, DeHaan created Cobbler and the IT-automation system Ansible, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2015. His keynote is entitled “Speaking for the Dead: Is ‘Waterfall’ and ‘Monolithic’ Actually Good?” DeHaan will discuss the emerging trend of microservices and hyper-agile development methodologies with an eye on the potential DevOps lessons learned from the 1990s and early 2000s.

Peter Lamar

If you need advice on how to justify a DevOps investment at your organization, you will not want to miss Peter Lamar’s session entitled “The (Business) Case for DevOps.” Both a software engineer and product manager at Cisco, Lamar will discuss how to successfully propose an investment in DevOps practices even if to a skeptical executive audience. During the session, you will learn how to break down potential benefits into business outcomes and outline a simple business case.

Eric Sigler

If you’re no stranger to major service outages, incident calls and war rooms, you might want to check out Eric Sigler’s session, “Is there any strong objection? Or How to have a (relatively) stress free time during an outage.” An engineering manager for Silicon Valley-based PagerDuty, Sigler also led operations teams at Minted and the Missouri University of Science and Technology. In his session, he will discuss how to shorten the time it takes to get back to a working state when things are broken. He will also compare responses from other industries, and go through patterns and processes any team or company can use to respond to problems quicker and in a more visible way.

Aaron Suggs

Day Two of the event kicks off with a morning keynote by Aaron Suggs, Kickstarter’s Operations Engineering Manager. His keynote is entitled “Context and Contingency: Patterns for Choosing Good Tools”, which will cover Kickstarter’s recent ELK Stack deployment for centralizing application logs. He will detail Kickstarter’s process for choosing tools for the project, which factors influenced their decisions, and he’ll also show how their implementation decisions impacted the processes and behaviors of his team.

Rebecca Fernandez and Jen Krieger

If you need tips on how to garner support for your ideas while fostering trust amongst your team members, then don’t miss “Tools Aren’t Just About Tech” presented by Red Hat’s Rebecca Fernandez and Jen Krieger. Fernandez is the evangelist for the Open Decision Framework, a collection of Red Hat’s best practices for open, collaborative, and inclusive decision-making. Krieger is Chief Agile Architect at Red Hat and leads a department-wide DevOps movement, focusing on continuous integration of best practices. Their session will explore the Open Decision Framework, a decision-making resource built upon the foundational principles of open source including transparency, collaboration, community, rapid prototyping, and meritocracy.

Chris Collins

If you need to learn more about integrating containers into a mature environment, then check out “Embracing the Container” presented by container and automation expert Chris Collins. A senior automation engineer and web architecture lead at Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, Collins will discuss new infrastructure and workflows, pitfalls, “ah-ha” moments, and re-considering the recent history of system administration practices.

Maggie Gourlay

My favorite DevOpsDays session title has got to be gamer and developer Maggie Gourlay’s “My Gaming Days Weren’t Wasted: How Gaming Trained Me for Testing in DevOps.” After years as a gamer and game tester, Gourlay began working as a QA engineer for a Boulder tech startup focused on DevOps. In her session, she will explain how she applied her game-testing experience to improve enterprise software applications.

Register to attend DevOpsDays Raleigh by visiting their website. Whether or not you are attending, you can follow DevOpsDays Raleigh updates by following the hashtag #DevOpsDaysRDU.

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ITIL® Foundation Question of the Week: Service Operation Stage Functions

Which of the following are functions described in the Service Operation stage of the Service Lifecycle? (Choose all that apply).

A. Service Desk
B. IT Technology Management
C. Application Development
D. IT Operations Management

Reveal Answer

Answer: A and D.

The four functions described in ITIL are: the Service Desk, Technical Management, Application Management and IT Operations Management. There are no functions called IT Technology Management or Application Development.

 

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CCNP Data Center Question of the Week: Cisco IMC

If you select Shared LOM NIC mode in the Cisco IMC Configuration Utility, which ports can access the Cisco IMC?

A. The ports on an installed Cisco network adapter card
B. The two 1-Gb Ethernet ports
C. The two 10/100 management ports
D. The two 10/100 management ports, but each port must be at defaults

Reveal Answer

Answer: B.

When you select the LAN on Motherboard NIC, then the two 1 Gig Ethernet ports are used.  Note, on the newer platform, there may be a single 10Gig Ethernet port, therefore which would be the port used on those platform.

 

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Security+ Question of the Week: LDAP Port

LDAP is based on x.500 standard naming conventions, is an Internet standard and uses which of the following ports?

A. TCP 389 and 636
B. TCP 443 and 465
C. UDP 53
D. UDP 1492

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is A.

LDAP uses TCP ports 389 for plain-text and 636 for TLS encrypted communications. TCP 443 is used by HTTPS and TCP 465 by SMTPS. UDP 53 is used for DNS queries. UDP 1492 is not used by a well-known application or service. Instead, this was crafted to trick you in to thinking of RFC 1492 which defined the original TACACS before Cisco developed their two customized proprietary versions of it called XTACACS and TACACS+.

 

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VMworld 2016 and its Cloud Workload Implications

In 2006, about 2 percent of all computer processing workloads were done in the public cloud and 98 percent were done using on-premises data centers, according to VMware’s internal research shared with 2016 VMworld attendees during the keynote speech. And, private cloud as a term hadn’t even been invented yet.

A decade later, 15 percent of workloads are in the public cloud, 12 percent on the private cloud, and 75 percent are on traditional on-premises IT, according to VMware’s research.

VMware estimates that the tipping point between cloud (public and private together) and on-premises IT will occur in 2021. The estimated tipping point between public cloud and the combination of private cloud and on-premises IT is in 2030.

As more and more workloads move to the cloud, fewer and fewer on-premises workloads will remain, meaning fewer IT staff will be required with those skill sets. Learning cloud and cross-cloud management will help you to stand out and help you to be employable in the future.

With this future in mind, VMware made several announcements during VMworld to keep themselves relevant in this rapidly changing cloud computing world. My colleague Rebecca Fitzhugh talked about some of them in her blog, “VMworld 2016: Top Announcements”. I’d like to dive a little bit deeper into what implications Cloud Foundation and Cross-Cloud Services will have on cloud workloads.

Cross-Cloud Architecture

The combination of VMware’s new Cloud Foundation and Cross-Cloud Services will build the Cross-Cloud Architecture. VMware’s vision is to enable any cloud, any application (legacy or cloud native, with or without containers) on any device.

As VMware has been saying for several years, we are moving into the era of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). We are moving towards software defined everything, which is so much more flexible and leads to greater agility for the enterprise, plus it is often cheaper. VMware’s solution is based on vSphere, NSX and VSAN, which covers the virtualization of computing, networking and storage, respectively.

Cloud Foundation has the ability to bundle and deploy a combination of vSphere, NSX and VSAN. It will come as a bundle and has its own installer, so you don’t need to worry about installing each component, and it also has an updater that will update each of the components and keep them all at supported levels relative to each other. Cloud Foundation is available immediately for on-premises computing, networking and storage and will be available via various cloud partners as a service, the first of which is IBM / SoftLayer. Once you purchase and install the hardware, this platform can be deployed and operational in a few hours instead of months.

Next, as more and more workloads move to the cloud, there needs to be a simple way to move workloads between the on-premises infrastructure and various cloud providers. VMware Cross-Cloud Services will handle this. This product is designed to support consistent policies as virtual machines (VMs) move between various public clouds and on-premises infrastructures, such as security, firewall, compliance, and other policies. It will work across multiple clouds, including Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS.

More Container Support

As part of the support for containers, VMware announced some updates to vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC), including a container engine and registry to track what has been deployed and where.

They also discussed their other container project, Photon, which is now available on GitHub. Photon is an open source project that is a Linux container host for container systems like Docker and container scheduling frameworks like Kubernetes that is as small and optimized as possible for use with vSphere.

Finally in the cloud space, VMware also discussed vSphere Integrated OpenStack (VIO), which allows the OpenStack APIs to be made available to developers while being managed through vSphere. It is available to all Enterprise Plus customers.

As always, VMworld has many announcements, but it was very refreshing after years of “cloud” to see how VMware is extending the old cloud strategy to include the other major cloud vendors as well, instead of trying to lock people into a specific cloud and family of products.

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VMware’s vRealize and NSX: Better Together

VMware vRealize Automation allows for unified cloud management by automating personalized infrastructure delivery. VMware NSX is a component of the software-defined data center (SDDC) that provides a network virtualization platform. NSX abstracts security and networking functionality and embeds it into the hypervisor rather than handling it in the hardware.

While both of these products work well standing on their own, NSX and vRealize Automation are better together. Together, NSX and vRealize Automation provide a way to deploy applications as well as network and security services at time of provisioning. These network and security policies can be used to ensure compliance with required corporate policies.

Some key benefits include:

• NSX configuration directly from within the vRealize Automation interface
• Application context for micro-segmentation
• Deployment-specific configuration extensibility

Integration work began with previous versions of both products but has made massive leaps forward in the newer releases (vRealize Automation 7.x and NSX 6.2.x).

As of the vRealize Automation 7.0 release, NSX network and security features are available. The configuration process can be easily created and managed through the drag and drop canvas as a part of the Converged Blueprint Designer. The graphical canvas allows for the visualization of the topology as it is being created, demonstrating the relationships between network and security components. This visualization helps ensure that the configuration is correct prior to publishing to the catalog for deployment.

The combination of vRealize Automation’s service catalog and resource management capabilities paired with NSX’s Layer 2 to Layer 7 logical security and networking services, ensures repeatable, on demand delivery of applications. Most of this functionality is exposed to the vRealize Automation administrator in the form of the Network Profiles construct.

There are three different types of network profiles available in vRealize Automation 7:

1. Routed
2. NAT
3. External

The selection of the network profile is important as it determines the automation actions and the application’s end topology.

Using vRealize Automation with NSX has the configurable controls needed for deploying a variety of network configurations and topologies (multi-tier, single-tier, and shared networks) in order to meet any requirements. There is also an integrated firewall, resulting in deploying an isolated network or segmented network, along with any additional integrated network services, being much easier than a more traditional deployment manner.

vRealize Automation leverages vRealize Orchestrator to provides “run books” to automate IT processes. The use of vRealize Orchestrator gives greater extensibility is available to meet environment or deployment specific requirements. Creating and inserting workflows within the provisioning lifecycle augments native NSX integration. This may significantly reduces the amount of customization needed, thereby reducing the time of deployment for an integrated solution.

Knowing the limitations of a product is as equally as important as knowing its features. Here’s a quick list of NSX actions that cannot be performed through vRealize Automation (as of September 13):

• Creation of distributed logical routers
• Naming NSX objects created by vRealize Automation (Edges may be renamed to an extent using blueprint names but not customized for each deployment.)
• Advanced configuration of the NSX Edge Gateway (VPN configuration, advanced load balancer settings, dynamic routing protocol configuration, L2 bridging, and so forth)

vRealize Automation delivers a deep integration and automation for a large majority of NSX’s services. These services are taken, built and deployed around applications and bound to policies that dictate requirements. NSX’s integration with vRealize Automation give access to improved security features that be leveraged to design systems with advanced networking.

More information may be found in the following VMware courses:

• VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [v7.0]
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [v6.2]
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Security+ Question of the Week: Data Processed by an Application

Managing data security and preventing data loss is a high priority in today’s business world. Which of the following terms refers to an application actively processed data?

A. Data at rest
B. Data at work
C. Data in use
D. Data in transit

Reveal Answer

The correct answer is C.

An application actively processing data is referred to as data in use.

The term data at rest relates to stored data, and data in transit relates to communications. There is not a common term of data at work.

 

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VMworld 2016: Top Announcements

Some saw this coming, others were surprised, but VMware did not announce any new vSphere, Horizon, vRealize, or NSX releases at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas last week. The general sessions focused more on the direction of the company rather than specific product lines.

Many were expecting a new vSphere announcement but this was not announced at VMworld US. Perhaps an announcement may be made at VMworld Barcelona in October. However, there were a few things of note.

Cloud Foundation

VMware announced the launch of Cloud Foundation, which is a unified software defined data center (SDDC) platform that combines VMware vSphere, Virtual SAN (VSAN), and NSX together into a natively integrated stack in order to deliver an enterprise public and private cloud infrastructure.

The goal is to take a hyper-converged infrastructure to a higher level by including NSX for greater scalability and increased security. Leveraging VMware’s SDDC solutions together can deliver greater availability, management and performance. VMware Cloud Foundation can be run on-premises or as a service with IBM being the first vCloud Air Network (vCAN) partner offering it. For private cloud use, turnkey VxRack Systems can be procured from EMC. Lastly, Cloud Foundation does integrate with vRealize, Horizon, VMware Integrated Open Stack, and vSphere Integrated Containers.

Cross-Cloud Services

Additionally, VMware also announced a tech preview of Cross-Cloud Services. Cross-Cloud Services is a new software as a service (SaaS) offering that VMware is developing to allow deeper visibility into the use and cost of cloud, as well as ensuring consistent network and security policies. But the real benefit is the ability to automate the deployment, management, and the migration of data and applications from vSphere to non-vSphere private and public clouds. The demo from VMworld can be found here.

Integrated OpenStack 3

VMware also introduced VMware Integrated OpenStack 3, the newest release of VMware’s distribution of OpenStack based on the OpenStack Mitaka release. VMware Integrated OpenStack 3 has reduced the infrastructure and other related costs required for running a production ready OpenStack cloud. Having a more compact management control plane allows administrators to quickly deploy OpenStack. The newest release includes the ability for customers to import existing VMware vSphere virtual machines into OpenStack.

Admiral and Harbor

Lastly, VMware enhanced vSphere Integrated Containers with the introduction of both Admiral and Harbor. This provides customers with important registry and management functionality, which increases support for production, containerized applications. Admiral is VMware vSphere Integrated Container’s built-in management portal to be used by developers and application teams for accelerating application delivery. Harbor is a built-in container registry that is based on Docker Distribution. However, VMware added a few features like user management and access-control, policy based image replication, ability to audit logs, RESTful APIs, and more.

Though there were no major product suite announcements at VMworld US, there is still plenty to be excited about. The general session keynote speeches provided customers and partners with VMware’s vision and future direction. Keep an eye on future announcements coming in October from VMworld Europe to see a handful of product update announcements! Hope to see you in Barcelona!

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