Vmware and Security White Papers

14 white papers are tagged with: vmware, security


DMZ Virtualization Using VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch

This paper tackles the subject of DMZ security and virtualization. It covers a number of DMZ security requirements and scenarios, presenting how vSphere users can implement the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch in a DMZ.

Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter

The concepts behind application and operation system virtualization are not new concepts, they have been around long before server appliances and desktop PCs were readily available in our daily vocabulary. The recent rate of virtualization adoption however, especially that of software operating ...
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Attacks on Virtual Machine Emulators

As virtual machine emulators have become commonplace in the analysis of malicious code, malicious code has started to fight back. This paper describes known attacks against the most widely used virtual machine emulators (VMware and VirtualPC). This paper also demonstrates newly discovered attacks ...

An Overview of the Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy Architecture

NetApp, Cisco, and VMware jointly designed a best-in-breed secure cloud architecture and validated this design in a lab environment. This white paper provides an overview of the secure cloud architecture. It also discusses the problems that this architecture solves and the four pillars of a secure ...

Securing the Cloud: A Review of Cloud Computing, Security Implications and Best Practices

This white paper, jointly developed by VMware and Savvis, will briefly review the basic fundamentals of cloud computing and describe how virtualization and the VMware vCloud™ (“vCloud”) initiative are enabling enterprises to move toward a flexible, federated computing model with a cohesive mix of ...

Virtualization: Take Back Your Data Center

A server is an intelligent and powerful file cabinet-nothing more. In fact, before servers came around, file cabinets were the ones taking up space in many offices. Some file cabinets were neatly organized while others were crammed with folders and documents. And since no one ever disposed of old ...

Data Center Virtualization Practice

On April 21, 2009, VMware made the largest announcement in the history of the company with the introduction of vSphere 4, the re branded new release of ESX 4. vSphere 4 (commonly referred to as "vSphere") is a "Cloud Computing Operating System" whose domain encompasses an entire datacenter, ...

Managing VMware® Doesn't End With Managing VMware

This white paper discusses the challenges introduced to systems management as the result of VMware. Also it describes NetIQ's approach to Operational VMware Management, an approach that addresses the hybrid physical / virtual environment.

vCenter Configuration Manager Security Environment Requirements

VCM operates within the context of a security environment. This environment consists of host configuration, various personnel and usage assumptions, organizational security policies, configuration settings, and best practices. Ultimately all security requirements are met either by controls built ...

VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Transport Layer Security Implementation

Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide endpoint authentication and secure communications over any transport. TLS is normally associated with Internet communication but can be applied to any transport layer, including ...
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