Network Performance and Security

Chapter 5

Server patterns

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the server farm. We show how to harden and optimize both bare metal servers and virtualized servers. In addition, server optimization techniques are presented for Linux-based servers.

Keywords

NIST 800-125

hardening servers

virtualization security and performance

I will cover best practices for configuring, deploying, and securing server solutions for the enterprise. The form I will take to achieve this is to give you use cases for specific classes of services in the network, which will give you a concrete example of best practices in a practical form. Although patterns given can certainly be deployed using stand-alone common off the shelf (COTS) bare metal servers, my assumption is that ...