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Install Windows 7 on AWS EC2 from ISO for client testing
This blog focuses on Win7 on AWS but note that you can also run WinXP, Windows 8, Windows 10 etc by following similar steps. If you have Active Directory in your environment and you’re looking for...
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Run an NFV Architecture (OPNFV) on AWS and Google – Brahmaputra Edition
Author: Iben Rodriguez Iben is Cloud consulting and Virtualization Architect. He is trained in agile, ITIL, SOX, PCI-DSS, ISO27000. He is working to shift SDN testing functions out of the test lab and...
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NFV Orchestration: Increase service velocity with NFV (part 2 of 4 post series)
Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack,...
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NFV Orchestration: Networking Automation using Juniper Contrail (part 3 of 4...
Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack,...
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How To Install And Run Windows 8 From ISO on AWS EC2
Although AWS does not natively allow you to install your own Win7, Win8 or WinXP on AMI by attaching an ISO, it’s fairly easy to do this using Ravello’s nested virtualization. This is particularly...
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OPNFV Testing on Cloud
Author: Brian Castelli Brian Castelli is a software developer with Spirent creating test methodologies for today's networks. His current focus is on SDN and NFV. The OPNFV project is dedicated to...
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Kali Linux penetration testing labs
As increasing number of enterprises turn to Ravello to replicate their environments on public cloud for security testing, we have seen a growing interest from security community to run security labs...
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Installing and configuring Trend Micro Deep Security, vSphere and NSX...
Trend Micro Deep Security, a security suite providing antivirus, intrusion prevention, firewalling, url filtering and file integrity monitoring for both virtual and physical systems. For virtualized...
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NFV Orchestration: Setup NFV Orchestration on AWS and Google Cloud (part 4 of...
Authors: Jakub Pavlik Jakub Pavlik and Ondrej Smola are engineers at tcpcloud – a leading private cloud builder. Matt Conran Matt Conran is an independent network architect and consultant, and blogs...
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Virtual training infrastructure: The backbone of hands on labs for ILT &...
Virtual training infrastructure is essential for ISVs, for training providers and for enterprises. It is key that this infrastructure will support the nature of the training use case - hands on labs...
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Performance tuning for nested ESXi on Ravello
Ravello has been pioneering nested virtualization for a while now and we recently launched a nested ESXi solution running on AWS and Google Cloud. In fact Ravello currently provides the only way to...
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8 ways how networking in AWS VPC differs from data-center
Public cloud is great. It brings to table agility, on-demand capacity, unlimited resources, global reach and most importantly ability to align costs with operational needs. More and more organizations...
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Ravello free service for all 2015 and 2016 vExperts
Congratulations to all the newly minted vExperts of 2016! I’d like to personally thank each and every one of you because as Corey rightly said in the announcement, “each of these vExperts have...
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How to setup and run a penetration testing (pentest) lab on AWS or Google...
Author: Clarence Chio Clarence works at Shape Security on the system that tackles malicious bot intrusion from the angle of big data analysis. Clarence has presented independent research on Machine...
View ArticleOracle Buys Ravello Systems
I am thrilled to share that Ravello Systems has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Oracle. The proposed transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. Upon closing of the transaction,...
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How to configure neutron networking in your OpenStack lab (Liberty)
This blog describes how to work with OpenStack networking on Ravello Systems, which enables OpenStack lab environments in the cloud. When configuring networks in an OpenStack environment on Ravello,...
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VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus 1000v Architecture Demystified
Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack,...
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Choosing between VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus 1000v
Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack,...
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How to run VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus 1000v on AWS & Google Cloud
Author: Matt Conran Matt Conran is a Network Architect based out of Ireland and a prolific blogger at Network Insight. In his spare time he writes on topics ranging from SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, OpenStack,...
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How to Configure Windows 2016 Containers on AWS or Google Cloud using Ravello
This blog shows how to install and create Windows containers on AWS or Google using Ravello, with an example. Ravello's nested virtualization technology allows you to deploy existing data center...
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