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Vmware Vsphere: Network Security Considerations

Which networks should be isolated for security reasons? Network security in the vSphere environment shares many characteristics with securing a physical network environment. Isolation of network traffic is essential to a secure vSphere environment. Isolation prevents snooping. Isolate networks for specific applications or functions: • iSCSI • NFS • Virtual SAN • Management Network segmentation […]

Vmware Vsphere and SAN storage best practices

Storage Path Redundancy Considerations: Multipathing provides both availability and load balancing for performance. Consider these guidelines when designing multipathing: • Always configure storage multipathing. • For availability, use a minimum of two active paths to a LUN: — Four paths are better because this configuration accommodates more types of failures. • Configure paths using two […]

Configure certificate in VMware Tanzu

TASK 1: GENERATE A CSR In the vSphere Client, select your Tanzu Cluster name and select Configure > Namespaces > Certificates. In the Workload Platform MGT tile, click the Actions drop-down menu and select Generate CSR. Configure the CSR. NOTE: The value for the common name must be DNS name of your Vmware Tanzu cluster (As it can be seen […]

Commvault, Netbackup, EMC networker benchmark – 22.11.2016

The comparison criteria that I made for the enterprise backup software towards the end of 2016 are as follows:   Feature Capability Can it back up its own deduplicated disk has it DR active management server The difficulty of AlwaysON SQL Restore Reporting backup and restore the last full backup with the command Get VM […]

Hitachi VSP (or HPE XP) host mode options

When you create host group on Hitachi VSP (or HPE XP) series, you can use these best practices for most used operating systems. For all operating systems: If you have GAD ( or HA) you must enable 88(Port Consolidation) in Host Mode Options. For Windows, host mode is  2C [Windows Extension] Enable from host mod […]

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