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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook
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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

by Michael Greer
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

Configuring virtual machine resource isolation

Monitoring the guest virtual machine might not seem to have a direct impact on security; however, should a VM spin out of control and go unchecked, it can have severe performance impact on neighboring VMs as well as the host. Without a mechanism to control or contain VMs, the potential to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition exists. In addition, excessive I/O can not only adversely affect the performance of VMs on the same host, but also affect the VMs on any number of hosts that use the same shared storage where the problem VM resides.

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In order to proceed with this set of steps, we must be logged in to vSphere Web Client with a user account in the administrators group. There must ...

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ISBN: 9781782170341