Forbes Guthrie an IT Engineer/Architect who specializes in VMware, Windows & Linux Server technologies, got rid of the old clunky site and just moved his site over to its new home. This should allow him to add more useful services. Hopefully, it will let him post more frequently, bringing you more useful tips and real-world hands-on advice like the VI3 reference card.
Thursday, July 10. 2008
Forbes Guthrie launched newly designed vmreference.com
VMware ESX Server 3.x Benchmark
This document addresses the security aspects of virtual machine technologies and VMware ESX Server 3.x implementations. While these topics cannot be completely separated from the standard security issues of operating a physical computer or basic issues of running the individual operating systems involved, this document‟s primary focus is on virtual machine security issues. For this reason, we do not cover all of the steps needed to harden the guest operating systems. The Center for Internet Security has multiple documents, which address guest operating system security recommendations. Recommendations are based on a variety of public sources and input from members of the Center for Internet Security (CIS).
PuTTY Connection Manager
PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY.
Wednesday, July 9. 2008
VMware ESX 3.5 Health Status
This evening I had the opportunity to take a peek at the upcoming version of ESX 3.5. The current version is VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 Build: 82664 but the build I’m running in my lab is 94067. I didn’t discover anything new. The only thing that’s different in the interface is the Health Status. This option was already available in ESX3I 3.5. I’m running ESX 3.5 on a HP530 so there isn’t much hardware to monitor. I also heard the rumour that the next release of Virtual Center (expected to be released at the end of July) will contain a supported SVMotion plug-in.
Tuesday, July 8. 2008
Debugging with Record Replay in WS 6.5
Paul Maritz new President and CEO of VMware
VMware's Board of Directors announced today that it has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO. VMware's Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as President and CEO of VMware effective immediately. Maritz was also named to VMware's Board of Directors.