Hot off the presses today folks is VMware’s new vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide. http://blogs.vmware.com/security/2010/04/vsphere-40-hardening-guide-released.html This guide represents a new approach to providing security guidance from VMware. As compared with the previous VI3 Hardening Guides, the current guide has the following highlights. Structure: this version uses a standardized format, with formally defined sections, templates, and reference [...]

A new bunch of patches for ESX 3.5 and 3.0.x were posted this week from VMware. If you’re still in the old Virtual Infrastructure 3 world, you might want to look in to the latest patches as they contain security and critical updates. Patch Download and Installation See the VMware Update Manager Administration Guide for [...]

VMware Virtualcenter roles and permissions are one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of Virtual Infrastructure 3.  We constantly receive calls into tech support asking how-to assign the appropriate rights to users and their virtual machines, clusters, etc. A new article I saw on VIOPS today that helps one understand some of the basic premises [...]