VMadvisor the forum where you can talk about virtualisation security, share thoughts on using security tools and security in general has now been launched, to sign up and see what it’s about go to vmadvisor. We hope you enjoy being part of this new online community…

Some of you may not be aware of this handy utility on the VMware ESX 3.x service console called ‘vimsh

It provides a metashell that gives you a lot of control over your ESX server and in terms of managment is a lot more efficient as you don’t have to shut things down…

Useful commands that it provides are shown in the next screenshot….

This util is completely undocumented and unsupported so use at your own peril!

Interesting presentation from Black Hat 09 Europe in April, on MPLS and Carrier Ethernet attacks….

VMware vShield is a product developed through the Blue Lane acquisition last year by VMware. This security product sits between the hypervisor and the guest VM and is installed as a virtual appliance which integrates with vCenter. To install vShield with in the virtual environment a user will need to upgrade the virtual environment to vSphere to support the implementation.
Configure vShield zones to protect and monitor your virtual environment in a multitude of ways.
Depending on your view in vCenter will determine how you secure your environment:
Server View: Allows you to set a security zone at the Data Centre, cluster, resource pool, etc
Network and Flow: Allows for securing at the vSwitch, VLAN or protocol level TCP, UDP, port number, etc
In addition vShield also gives you stateful packet protection across vMotion VM’s.

VMinformer has been officially launched at VMworld Europe in Cannes, click to view the press release at  vmworld.com