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Saturday, June 2. 2012

vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide - Official Release

This is the official release of the vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide, v1.0.  The format of this guide has changed from previous versions. The guide is being released as a Excel spreadsheet only.  The guideline metadata from earlier guides has been greatly expanded and standardized.  CLI commands for assessment and remediation of the guidelines is included for the vCLI, ESXi Shell, and PowerCLI.



http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19605
Posted by
Eric Sloof
at 06:42

Wednesday, April 11. 2012

VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram



The VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram provides a comprehensive look into the ESXi memory management mechanisms and reclamation methods. This diagram also provides the relevant monitoring components in vCenter Server and the troubleshooting tools like ESXTOP. Source KB: 2017642 kudos to Hany Michael
Posted by
Eric Sloof
at 10:46

Friday, March 16. 2012

501 Release Notes

vSphere 5.0 U1 Release Notes
  • Support for new processors
  • Support for additional guest operating systems 
  • New or upgraded device drivers
  • L3-routed NFS Storage Access

vCenter 5.0 U1 Release Notes
  • Guest Operating System Customization Improvements

View 5.0.1 Release Notes
  • PCoIP-enabled View Client for Mac OS X 
  • Client SSL requirement

vCD 1.5.1 Release Notes
  • Firewall rules can be configured with CIDR blocks, IP ranges, and port ranges
  • Added system notification for lost connection to AMQP host
  • Enhanced cell management tool and log collection script
  • Support for AES-256 encryption for VPN tunnels
  • Increased the retention maximum for vCenter Chargeback history

SRM 5.0.1 Release Notes
  • Forced failover to allow you to recover virtual machines in cases where storage arrays fail at the protected site
  • Added support for IP Customization of Ubuntu
  • VMware VSA Support (Virtual machines that reside on the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) can be protected by SRM 5.0.1 using vSphere Replication (VR). VSA does not require a Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) to work with SRM 5.0.1)

vShield 5.0.1 Release Notes
  • Enhanced reporting and export options
  • New REST API calls
  • Improved audit logs
  • Simplified troubleshooting
  • Improved vShield App policy management 
  • vShield App High Availability enhancements
  • Enablement of Autodeploy (Stateless ESXi)

Configuration Manager 5.5 Release Notes
  • vSphere Guest Summary dashboard
  • Virtual Environments Change Management dashboard
  • Virtual Environments Compliance Posture dashboard (previously named Security Posture)
  • Cloud Infrastructure Suite Integration (CIS) tree

Chargeback Manager 2.0.1 Release Notes
  • Upgraded the Apache Tomcat server to version 6.0.35
  • vCenter Chargeback Manager fails to validate XML API requests
  • Upgrade fails with database connection error
  • Usage of some of the computing resources are reported as zero
  • Enhancements to the vCloud Director Data Collector
  • Enhancements to the VM Instance Cost job
  • Report schedule generates duplicate reports

Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1 Release Notes
  • Support for vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1
  • The ability to install vCenter Support Tools 
Posted by
Eric Sloof
at 13:52

Thursday, March 1. 2012

The Rise of Security and Compliance in the Middle Ages



Do your IT security and compliance policies seem positively medieval?  Watch this painstakingly researched overview of the Rise of Security and Compliance to find out why... then be thankful that we live in a time with VMware security and compliance solutions for the Cloud.
Posted by
Eric Sloof
at 08:28
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