Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Interesting Virtual News and Posts - #3

virtuallyGhetto: vSphere Security Hardening Report Script for vSphere 5
William has upated his script that allows you to check your vSphere infrastructure hardening. It includes new  requirements from vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide (public draft).

Well, the fact of the publishing of public draft vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide is interesting news also :)
Here is a document with changes between 4.1 and 5.0.

VMware ESXi 5 snapshot changes
Post describes some traits of ESXi 5 snapshots. 

Vmware View 5.1 Rumours: new version will be released on May 9th.

Creating and Reviewing Windows crash dumps in VMware virtual machines
Instructions: how to create memory.dmp from from the running virtual machine with Windows

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.0, ESX Server 4.0, VirtualCenter 4.1, ESX Server 4.1, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance or ESX Server 5 RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

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