In times of Ransomware , security breaches and exploits it is more and more important to harden every layer of IT infrastructure. This blog post is about hardening options of VMware layers. I will describe the concept of the VMware Security Hardening Guides and how to check compliance with VMware Operations Manager. What is VMware…
VMware Security Hardening Guides and how to check compliance — vNote42
Offcourse I encourage customers to use AHV when using Nutanix, but sometimes customers are stuck using VMWare due to specific requirements or others reasons. Setting up Nutanix on AHV is pretty straightforward but on VMWare it is a bit different. 874 more words
Nutanix on ESX, howto setup the network stack — Tielen Consultancy
In Part 1, I may have scared the crap out of you introduced protecting your vSphere environment from Ransomware attacks using some resources from VMware. But, that was an iceberg-level introduction to the concept. Here, we are going to talk about what you can actually do to protect your vSphere environment. My focus here is […]
Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 2: Rubber Meets Road — Thinking Out Cloud
Here are some performance considerations for running Nutanix AOS 5.10 or higher on vSphere 6.7 U3b. In vSphere 6.7 you may have noticed the introduction of Skyline Health (vSphere Client, vCenter Server object, Monitor, Skyline Health) and the reporting of the Compute Health Checks. You may have also noticed the informational alert in the ESXi […]
via Performance Considerations when running Nutanix on vSphere — vcdx133.com
Recently one of the largest Zerto customers (10,000 protected VMs) reached out to me asking for help. It was early Friday evening, I already had a beer open, so I thought why not? Using PowerCLI they needed to match VMDKs to Windows drive letters in order to mark them as SWAP disks in their VM…
via Matching VMDKs to Windows drive letters using PowerCLI — Virtually Sober
Nutanix provides several ways to protect workloads running on its platform. Depends on the business requirements customer can choose between a variety of the available options. 25 more words
via Working with Nutanix Metro Availability – part 1 — VMwaremine – Artur Krzywdzinski | Nutanix
At Rubrik, we prioritize customer engagement and focus on tailoring our roadmap to our users’ specific needs. When speaking with our customers, we discovered that many are investigating or using VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) for a variety of use cases. Most commonly, users leverage VMC as a Disaster Recovery site or a place to […]
Have you ever wanted to create a real-time IT dashboard for your Hyper-V environment? It can be difficult to monitor and assess resources in large Hyper-V environments. On top of that, reporting is essential for IT managers but you cannot provide a basic Excel report. Using Windows PowerShell, you could be able to create reports…
via How to create Hyper-V Dashboard using Windows PowerShell? — vembu.com
Runecast is a company that provides actionable predictive analytics for VMware vSphere environments. Runecast Analyzer is a solution that provides software-defined expertise to mitigate service outages, increase security and compliance and reduce time in troubleshooting. Runecast Analyzer is deployed in VMware environments across the globe within enterprise and SME customers. This solution can discover hidden issues…
The L1 Terminal Fault (aka Foreshadow) bug is another speculative execution side channel attack that affect Intel Core processors and Intel Xeon processors only. For VMware vSphere there are some patches available as described in this document: VMSA-2018-0020. All patches have been released on August, 14th 2018. VMware Product Product Version Running On Severity Replace_with/Apply_Patch Build…
via L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – VMware vSphere patches — vInfrastructure Blog
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