Texiwill | June 30, 2010
During the Virtual Thoughts podcast on 6/29/2010, the analysts discussed various hardware aspects of virtualization trying to determine if the hypervisor was to move into the hardware? and if so how much of it? as well as whose hypervisor? and lastly such a move part of any business model?
Virtual Thoughts is a monthly podcast that looks at the entire scope of virtualization to discuss new trends and thoughts within the virtualization and cloud communities. (more…)
Topic: 
Data Center Virtualization |
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Tags: Hardware, Hypervisor, Intel, KVM, VCE, Virtual Thoughts Podcast, VMware, Xen
Texiwill | June 29, 2010
During the Virtualization Security Podcast on 6/22, Steve Orrin of Intel and Dennis Morreau of RSA joined us to discuss the impact of Intel Westmere chips built-in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) on Cloud and Virtualization Security. TPM is not all that new, but TXT’s usage in virtualization security is new. Both together can form a hardware root of trust for the virtual environment.
At the moment however, these technologies are limited to just providing a secure launch of a well known hypervisor within the hardware. As such they have not been extended to the virtual machine. TXT however solves a very important issue that at the time the book VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security was written had theoretical solutions, I speak of Blue Pill style attacks. There were rumors of Hyperguard or Guard Hype tools becoming available, but they are only research projects. TXT on the other hand, offers protection from Blue Pill style attacks.
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Topic: 
Cloud Computing, Data Center Virtualization, 
Virtualization Security |
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Tags: Hardware Root of Trust, Launch Control Policy, Secure Launch, Secure Multi-Tenancy, TPM, TXT, Westmere
Tom Howarth | June 29, 2010
Like all good remakes this is best served cold. After an hiatus of several months The Virutalization Practice are pleased to bring back to life the Virtual Thoughts podcast. The subject for the first program is as follows:-
Is the Hypervisor being pushed into hardware, why/why not?
http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/50667
So add the time and date into your calendar and join the Analysts of the The Virtualization Practice for an hour of thoughts and maybe even a little bit of insight into the dark arts that is the virtualisation world
That is Tuesday the 29th June 2010 @ 7:00pm (BST)that is 2:00pm EST and 11:00am PST
Hope to see you there!
Topic: 
Application Virtualization, 
Business Agility, Cloud Computing, Data Center Virtualization, 
Desktop Virtualization, 
Performance Management, 
Personalization Virtualization, 
Presentation Virtualization, 
SMB Virtualization, 
Storage Networking, 
Virtualization Backup, 
Virtualization Management, Virtualization Security |
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Tags: Analysts, Edward L. Haletky, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Podcast, Tom Howarth, Virtual Thoughts Podcast, virtualization, VMware View, Xen
Bernd Harzog | June 28, 2010
It is pretty much the consensus that most large enterprises have not virtualized more than about 30% of their servers, and what they have virtualized are the “tactical” applications that IT owns and that IT can virtualize without the permission of a group that owns an application and that has to answer to set of business constituents. The next set of applications to be virtualized are variously referred to as “Business Critical”, “Tier 1”, or “Performance Critical” but these terms all mean the same thing – the application has people who care for it and people who use it who demand that it perform well all of the time. (more…)
Topic: Data Center Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage Networking |
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Tags: Virtual Instruments, VMware performance, VMware storage performance, vSphere storage performance
sbeaver | June 25, 2010
There is a cardinal rule that we should all know about, especially for those of us who have spent a lot of time developing kickstart scripts for automated builds of the VMware hosts in your environment, that you do not use windows word editors like Notepad or WordPad when working with Linux files. If you use notepad to edit Linux files it will add unwanted line feeds (LF) to the file which may cause the file to be misinterpreted. If you must use Microsoft Windows as your client OS use Microsoft WordPad which does not modify the file in this way. If you have ever tried to troubleshoot why your script or file is not working once you edit with Notepad be prepared to pull a lot of your hair out. There are several different editors out there that can handle saving to the different formats. One of my favorites editors to use is win32pad. (more…)
Topic: Data Center Virtualization, Virtualization Management |
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Tags: License Files, License Server, Virtual Center, VMware
