Just found this from Duncan’s blog today and I think is important to share with every VMware administrator. The security hardening reference guides are available from VMware now. You can read the full details from here. I will suggest all the VMware administrator to read this and consider to implement the necessary configuration to secure the virtual infrastructure. These documents are not final yet and still in draft version but I do find it is helpful for everyone to understand and consider about the security hardening from every aspect.
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Just came across the release note from Cisco and VMware about the latest version Nexus 1000V R1.2 for VMware vSphere 4. According to the original blog there are new improvement on the area below
- GUI setup following software install
- Layer 3 control between VSM and VEMs
- Virtual Service Domains for classifying and separating traffic for network services
- iSCSI Multipath—supporting multipath feature introduced in vSphere 4
- XML API for developing client apps for managing/monitoring the Nexus 1000V
- DHCP Snooping for validating DHCP messages and filtering invalid responses
- Dynamic ARP Inspection for validating ARP requests and responses
- IP Source Guard for filtering traffic on interfaces to valid MAC and IP addresses
- MAC Pinning for assigning Ethernet port members to particular port channel subgroup (where upstream switches do not support port channels)
- Static Pinning
There are more new features in the latest release and please read more from here.
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VMware had officially released the vSphere 4 update 1 yesterday. There are many new support features and also bug fixes. Is time to take a look for a major upgrade this month to overcome some challenges we faced with the previous version.
Please view more information from the release note.
Beside the bug fixes, there are some new key highlight here too.
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SRM version 4 had officially released and ready to download from VMware Official Website. Before this, users with SRM will not able to upgrade to vSphere 4 due to the SRM compatible. Now you will be excited to upgrade your existing ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4 with SRM 4. You can read more about SRM 4 from here. You can download the latest copy of SRM 4 from here.
Long distance VMotion had been officially supported since Sep 2009.
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