Security is a subject that has historically been overlooked by companies/vendors when it comes to deployment of new systems. Generally, an easy and quick way out is preferred, especially when there are time-pressures to deliver a project or solution. That situation is exacerbated due to the fact that techies don't generally give security much thought [...]
Recently, I was building a nested ESXi environment in my lab, based on vSphere 5.5. Regular readers will remember that I generally use VMware Workstation (version 10, in this case) to run my virtual environment. I usually have my ESXi hosts configured with 8 NICs, which is pretty handy when I have to play with [...]
For those of you who follow VMware products closely, the past couple of weeks have been quite interesting. VMware has announced vSphere 5.0 which has a lot of new exciting features and as always, bigger limits for resources that people are unlikely to hit... ever! However, it is unfortunate that this version of vSphere is making headlines [...]
The first thing one wants to do after upgrading the environment to a newer ESX version, is to upgrade VMware tools on all VMs. If the environment has a large number of machines, this could be a tedious and time-consuming process. This is where the ability to upgrade a bunch of machines automatically comes in very [...]