http://blogs.windowsecurity.com/parker/2007/08/21/the-virtues-of-virtualization/ Within Don Parker's blog various computer network security issues are discussed. Find coverage on topics such as patch management techniques, reverse engineering, IDS and IPS evasion, anti-virus and firewall usage. Commentary on the top network security news stories and rumors in the blogsphere. Analysis of common security issues faced by Microsoft Windows users and information is shared to help train network security analysts. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://blogs.windowsecurity.com/parker/2007/08/21/the-virtues-of-virtualization/#comment-32405 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:08:24 +0000 http://blogs.windowsecurity.com/parker/2007/08/21/the-virtues-of-virtualization/#comment-32405 We currently run all of our main servers inside of VMware ESX 3 server. We have two physical servers connected to a SAN via fiber. We run Exchance, SQL, Filemaker server, Terminal servers and several file/print servers inside of our VMware setup. This system was chose due to the growth my company has experienced. The ESX system has allowed us to grow and expand our servers as needed with the biggest headache being licensing. We can add and remove drives to our virtual servers easily and adding additional physical storage for logical partitioning is also easy. Using ESX, IBM Xseries servers with Fibrechannel and SATA drives connected in a Fiber SAN has helped us create a fast, stable and scalable solution for the company. We have also began testing the VDI concept using virtulized Windows XP Pro machines with Wyse Winterms connecting to them for basic functions in our warehouse. This allows us to have cheaper devices in harsher enviroments that can be easily replaced and reconfigured if any there are any problems with the Winterm or the virtual workstation. A workstation can be easily cloned in VMware with Virtual Center. We currently run all of our main servers inside of VMware ESX 3 server. We have two physical servers connected to a SAN via fiber. We run Exchance, SQL, Filemaker server, Terminal servers and several file/print servers inside of our VMware setup. This system was chose due to the growth my company has experienced. The ESX system has allowed us to grow and expand our servers as needed with the biggest headache being licensing. We can add and remove drives to our virtual servers easily and adding additional physical storage for logical partitioning is also easy. Using ESX, IBM Xseries servers with Fibrechannel and SATA drives connected in a Fiber SAN has helped us create a fast, stable and scalable solution for the company. We have also began testing the VDI concept using virtulized Windows XP Pro machines with Wyse Winterms connecting to them for basic functions in our warehouse. This allows us to have cheaper devices in harsher enviroments that can be easily replaced and reconfigured if any there are any problems with the Winterm or the virtual workstation. A workstation can be easily cloned in VMware with Virtual Center.

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