I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

vShield Data Security

Inside the vShield family, we could enable the vShield Data Security service in order to have visibility into the leakage of sensitive information in our company, He will show it to us in some reports, where we can confirm that we have the information correctly secured, being able to evaluate compliance with any regulation in the world.

vShield Endpoint con Trend Micro Deep Security

In this document, we will see the deployment of vShield Endpoint with Trend Micro's Deep Security antivirus, As we already know, with vShield Endpoint we will be able to avoid having on each virtual machine (hosted on our vSphere infrastructure) of antivirus/antimalware software, with this we will be able to further optimize our VDI environments by not having as many AVs as MVs, The processing of this payload is executed only once by our hypervisor.

Installing the vShield App

Como ya vimos en el documento anterior, desplegamos nuestro vShield Manager para poder gestionar nuestro entorno vShield, en este documento desplegaremos el appliance firewall vShield App para proteger mediante reglas de red el acceso entre nuestras máquinas virtuales, desplegaremos un vShield App por cada host.

Installing vShield Manager

vShield Manager enables centralized management of vShield components in the network, is a virtual applicance installed on one of our ESXi hosts (one per vCenter). From its management console we can install, configure (or perform maintenance) on vShield components. In this first document we will see the deployment of this appliance and its initial configuration,

VMware vShield

VMware vShield is a component that adds security by protecting virtual data centers from potential attacks or misuse through a set of security virtual appliances built for VMware vSphere. In a series of articles we will see the deployment of the products that make it up: vShield Manager, vShield App, vShield App with Data Security, vShield Edge and vShield Endpoint.

Virtualize VMware ESXi 5.0

If we need to set up a lab or need to test any new configuration before applying it to our customers' hosts, we will be able to virtualize VMware ESXi 5 and run virtual machines under these virtual hosts. In this document we will see how to dispose of this, in addition to being able to configure an EVC cluster with virtual hosts to be able to mount Storage Appliance or whatever we need,