What’s New With VMware vSphere 6.5 update 3 Features
Well, VMware continues to improve the vSphere 6.5 release of code for customers who haven’t migrated up to vSphere 6.7 as of yet. The great thing with vSphere 6.5, VMware…
Category: vSphere 6.5
Configure VMware vSphere Encryption Key Management Server Cluster
One of the exciting features with vSphere 6.5 is the ability to perform virtual machine encryption. We have already taken a look at Hytrust KeyControl as a great way to…
Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager. There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of…
Setup and Configure VMware vSphere 6.5 Storage I/O Control
When managing and maintaining a VMware vSphere environment, keeping an eye on storage and storage I/O is extremely important. In most virtualization environments where shared SAN storage is in place,…
VMware Virtual Machine Encryption Key Management
One of the exciting new features included with VMware vSphere 6.5 is the ability to encrypt VMware virtual machines by using a native encryption process that is managed at the…
How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more…
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID…
What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server
Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have…
Using VMware VM Storage Policies
VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage…
Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups
We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups. However, to take this a…