25 Aug 2008

HP Chief Security Strategist Shares 5 Steps to Safer Virtual Servers

Earlier this month, at the Black Hat conference, Chris Whitener, chief security strategist with HP Secure Advantage, shared the following five steps to safer virtual servers, in a story that was captured by Infoworld. 1. Protect your host operating... (posted on 25 Aug 2008 by The Security and Compliance Connection Blog)

24 Aug 2008

Running ESX 3.5 and 3i Under VMWare Workstation 6.5

As result of battle between Microsoft and VMWare (for place on Virtualization market), VMWare announced that a new VMWARE ESXi server became FREE. This news generated a lot of interest and many people started to try install VMWARE ESXi on VMWARE... (posted on 24 Aug 2008 by The System Administrator)

22 Aug 2008

The Four Horseman of the Virtualization Security Apocalypse

I definitely need to get to the Black Hat conference next year. It was just a few weeks back in Vegas and it looked to have a ton of good sessions. One of my absolute favorite bloggers, Christofer Hoff, was nice enough to post the slides from his... (posted on 22 Aug 2008 by Data Center Links)

21 Aug 2008

Does server virtualization reduce costs? Part II - Power savings

This is my second post in the series about the costs of server virtualization. So, what is it about the “hay argument”: ten horses require ten times more hay than one horse? Do ten servers always consume less energy than one? I don’t think so. How much... (posted on 21 Aug 2008 by 4sysops - For Windows Administrators)

20 Aug 2008

Microsoft Updates Virtualization Licensing

Several virtualization initiatives from Microsoft are making headlines today, including updated licensing terms for Windows virtualization technology and the expansion of its Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). Here's a roundup, with... (posted on 20 Aug 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)

19 Aug 2008

Does server virtualization reduce costs? Part I - hardware expenses

A while ago, I discussed the seven disadvantages of server virtualization. Cost was one factor that I did not cover in that post. Questioning whether one can reduce costs with server virtualization sounds a bit like blasphemy these days. You will hardly... (posted on 19 Aug 2008 by 4sysops - For Windows Administrators)

14 Aug 2008

ESXi - A perspective from the Microsoft World

I’ve written a bit about ESXi before in a comparison to other free virtualization products from an SMB perspective. I’ve seen the “big” ESX in a few places and worked a bit with it, but i decided to refresh my knowledge on VMware a bit. For this, i first... (posted on 14 Aug 2008 by Lukas Beeler's IT Blog)

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