Day: December 1, 2008

VI 3 Hardening Guide

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VMware has produced a 31 page security hardening guide covering the different aspects of hardening the Virtual Infrastructure.  By introducing a layer of abstraction between the physical hardware and virtualized systems running IT services, virtualization technology provides a powerful means to deliver cost savings via server consolidation as well as increased operational efficiency and flexibility.
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Benchmarking and Troubleshooting VM Storage I/O Performance

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This is a guest post by Darky from #ESX on EFNet. A lot of the time an ESX/VI administrator will not always have access to the SAN infrastructure. Often there can be frustration in trying to work with that SAN team cooperatively to determine whether or not the performance issue seen in an ESX environment
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