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The purpose of the hardened virtual appliance operations guide is to address the remaining technical requirements that are site-specific decision required to meet the STIG. This document is intended for advanced level administrators, and should be read before deploying hardened virtual appliances in a production environment.

Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide - Securing the Appliance Base Platform to Meet High Governance Requirements

The third volume of the VMware Technical Journal, which includes papers by VMware employees, interns and collaborators in academia has been released. The breadth of papers presented reflects VMware’s focus on simplifying the delivery and consumption of applications, and the many problems and challenges associated with achieving this.

• Analysis of the Linux Pseudo-Random Number Generators
• Toward Guest OS Writable Virtual Machine Introspection
• A Benchmark for User-Perceived Display Quality on Remote Desktops
• Virtualizing Latency-Sensitive Applications: Where Does the Overhead Come From?
• Analyzing PAPI Performance on Virtual Machines
• Hierarchical Memory Resource Groups in the eSX Server
• Improving Software Robustness Using Pseudorandom Test Generation
• Toward an elastic elephant enabling hadoop for the Cloud
• vSDF: A Unified Service Discovery Framework

VMWARE TECHNICAL JOURNAL - VOL. 2, NO. 2 – DECEMBER 2013

This technical note describes how to install, upgrade, and uninstall vCenter Server and related components by using the Windows command‐line interface. The command‐line installation requires you to log on to the local machine.

The command‐line installation process includes downloading the vCenter Server installer, gathering the required data, and using the command parameters and samples in this technical note to install the products according to your specifications.

As the scope of virtualized infrastructure continues to grow beyond a traditional single physical site to geographically dispersed multi-site environments, the ability to vMotion transparently across large distances will be a critical requirement.

vMotion in vSphere 5.5 incorporates a number of performance enhancements that enable a seamless migration of even large virtual machines running enterprise workloads over a metro distance. In addition, vMotion in vSphere 5.5 offers support for EMC VPLEX Metro, which enables shared data access across metro distances.

A series of tests were conducted at VMware Performance labs, in cooperation with EMC, to characterize vMotion performance on a VMware vSphere 5.5 virtual infrastructure that was stretched across two geographically dispersed datacenters using EMC VPLEX Metro. 

This white paper describes the testing methodology, workloads used, and the performance results. In addition, it outlines the best practices to follow when using vMotion in a VPLEX Metro environment.