the Sky is the Limit
Icons and stencils are very useful tools when building diagrams and presentations. They can help to simplify complex relations and workflows.
Ray Heffer (VMware) has published an entire set for Visio and PowerPoint. Icons are not official, but very nice.
Thank you very much. 🙂
VMware has issued Security Advisories for the recent Meltdown and Spectre bugs to address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution.
I recommend reading a post by Anton Gostev (Veeam), which i reposted yesterday.
It includes patches for VC, ESXi, Workstation and Fusion.
VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue.
There’s also an update to VMSA-2018-0002
Continue reading “VMware releases patches for Meltdown and Spectre bug”
Anton Gostev wrote a wonderful article on the Spectre and Meltdown attack in his weekly forums digest.
I will repost it here for those who haven’t subscribed yet.
| Veeam Community Forums Digest | January 1 – January 7, 2018 |
I usually don’t like writing about obvious matters. Yes, fire is hot – night is dark and ice is cold. But in recent times I’ve witnessed some network topology designs (?), that made me frown.
I admit, that in some cases the situation is based on a lack of budget or just structures that have grown over years. I can understand that and it’s no shame. It’s my job to give advices and help to re-design.
On the other hand there are environments who boast with high class components that have cost a fortune and which are organized in such an inefficient way that it almost hurts.
This article is not intended as a networking deep-dive. It’s a shallow 101 about network design that should be common knowledge. It’s a guide for the novice but I’d be happy to get responses by experts too.
First let’s start with four simple networking requirements for Virtual Infrastructures.
Continue reading “Resilient Network Infrastructure for Virtualization”