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L4 Load Balancing Support in vCloud Networking & Security Edge Gateway?
Load Balancing is just one of the many networking services provided by the vCloud Networking and Security Edge Gateway which is a part of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security solution. By default,...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide **DRAFT** now available
For those of you that don’t follow the security blog but do have questions on how to better secure your VMware infrastructure, on 11th of Feb 2013 we posted a draft copy of the new vSphere V5.1...
View ArticleTech Marketing at Partner Exchange 2013
Still have some empty spots in your PEX calendar? Let me recommend a few sessions being brought to you by some of our Tech Marketing team in the Cloud Infrastructure team! Arranged by presenter’s name,...
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vCenter Certificate Automation Tool – Now Available
With the release of vCenter 5.1 adding additional certificates into the environment to make communication between components more secure, the process of updating these certificates with customers’ own...
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Minimum vSphere Privileges To Query VIBs On An ESXi Host
This was a recent question that was asked internally about the minimum privileges required to query VIBs on an ESXi host. The request was for a custom script that was developed for compliance check and...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide – Official Release
This is a re-posting from the vSphere Security Blog to ensure maximum coverage. Hi, I’m pleased to announce to availability of the official release of the vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide. The guide is...
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vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide goes mobile!
Hi, In order to get a wide audience for this topic, I’ve cross posted this post from the VMware Security and Compliance Blog. Enjoy! It has been a couple of weeks since the release of the vSphere 5.1...
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Virtualization Security for the IT Guy–Courtesy of the New England VTUG
Here in Technical Marketing at VMware, we are fortunate to be able to regularly speak to members of the virtualization community at various events. One of those events is the newly formed VTUG. VTUG...
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Skating your way to the SDDC
This week I was reminded of that great Wayne Gretzky quote, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been”. How is that relative to the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)? Well,...
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Grant shell access to this user? No worries mate!
A few weeks ago I saw on an internal email thread an ask from a customer via their VMware sale engineer. The customer was using AutoDeploy and Host Profiles. As part of this process, they were creating...
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“It’s a Unix system, I know this!”
Every fellow geek who first saw Jurassic Park twenty years ago (Has it really been that long??) cringed when Lex Murphy sat down at a Silicon Graphics workstation and exclaimed the line above. I’m...
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ESXi, syslog and logins
This blog posting, like many others, was prompted by a field request from a customer. The customer wanted to understand two things: When/How admins were logging into ESXi (DCUI or SSH) What were they...
View Article2013 VMware Fling Contest – Call for Entries
The 2013 VMware Fling Contest is now open. Do you have an idea on how certain features or functionality could be improved upon? Can you think of an app that would make the life of a system...
View ArticleVirtual Appliances getting more secure with vSphere 5.5 – Part 1
With VMworld San Francisco in our rear view mirror, the flow of information coming in from many sources is staggering! Well, in that spirit, here’s some more! At VMware we take security very seriously....
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Virtual Appliances getting more secure with vSphere 5.5 – Part 2
Hopefully by now you’ve read Part 1. In there we discussed the new security features of many new VMware virtual appliances, including some that are being released with vSphere 5.5. In this post and the...
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Virtual Appliances getting more secure with vSphere 5.5 – Part 3
Making DISA compliance easy In Parts 1 and 2 we introduced the VMware Hardened Virtual Appliances and went over password management. In Part 3, we’ll focus on a new tool, dodscript.sh, to make...
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Virtual Appliances getting more secure with vSphere 5.5 – Part 4
Meeting Objectives with VMware Hardened Virtual Appliances In this final part, we’ll go over setting up logging (both system and audit logs) and Grub hardening and NFS/NIS management and wrap it all up...
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vSphere Web Client Roles and Permissions How-To Video
Have you ever wondered how Roles and Permissions work using the vSphere Web Client? Here’s a great video brought to you by VMware Tech Pubs. Peter Shepherd does a great job in introducing you to Roles...
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vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Release Candidate has been published
Hi, Hardening Guide 5.5 I’m happy to announce the availability of the vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide Release Candidate. A SIGNIFICANT amount of documentation updates have been incorporated into the guide...
View ArticlevCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 – Backwards Compatible?
Part of my role at VMware is to work closely with our customers and partners, sharing experiences and feedback with internal VMware Product Management and Engineers to help make our products better....
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