Ron Fuller, double CCIE, co-author of NSX Fundamentals Live Lessons and NSX Essentials book, dives into one really powerful aspect of NSX, the distributed firewall and how policies can be created. The separation of network Read More …
One of the typical questions when considering NSX deployments is who should be the administrator? However this is often a two horse race, between Network and Virtualization Systems Administrators. Although NSX is SDN (software defined networking), Read More …
Centralized logging will can be done by deploying a syslog server and using this to collect and manage logs. An easy option is to install the syslog server bundled with the vCenter installation, in this Read More …
If you are going to be logging to disk, either local or a shared volume. PowerCLI can be used to set individual hosts log values for log size and rotation, do the math so you are Read More …
By default, the logs on VMware ESXi are stored only in the in-memory file system [scratch file], and are lost upon reboot. There are two options to save logs so that a dedicated record of Read More …
Hypervisor Retention of Logs on Disk Logs are not saved according to a period of time, but according to size, so once the log gets to X size a number is appended and a new Read More …
The main point of a security audit is not to try and strangle the auditor, he is just doing his job, although you might think he is there to make your life impossible. I have Read More …