VMworld 2014 Europe, day three

(Note! This blog post is a personal notepad for the day, so it might be a little bit confusing to read :))

Morning started again with General Session. Maybe biggest thing for me was enhancements to Fault Tolerance and vMotion. But, all this was already announced in VMworld 2014 US..

BTW. you can watch keynote speeches and many other videos from VMworld here


HBC2638 - Ten Vital Best Practices for Effective Hybrid Cloud Security

If you have tools like IPS/IDS, AV, automation etc used in your private cloud, extend those components to public cloud too.

Make sure that path between public and private cloud is secure.

How does public cloud do secure data destruction for failed devices?

Examples of commonly ignored threats

• Social engineering
• 'Watering holed' (social meetings, pubs, bars etc.)
• Logical
• Crack / Penetration
• DDOS
• Physical

What to do:

• Design review
• Penetration testing
• Use NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) + HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection System)
• Host based AV / Filtering

Educate, not only you IT staff, but also your other employees!

Threat your credentials like cattle, not pets

Threat all systems like cattle, not pets.

Automate us much as possible, treat all manual system interaction as a liability

INF3014-SPO Scripting & Automation

Good discussion about scripting and automation in general, discussion on recursive treewalks with scripts and collecting performance data.

Request for all: share you scripts to community!

Vagrant, development environment, worth checking out

• automated setup of operatins systems & applications
• testing your automation

vCenter server simulator, this is something that I had never heard of, but immediately found some links like this

NET1974 Multi-Site Data Center Solutions with VMware NSX

Yet another NSX session, all of these are big sessions, so interest on NSX is huge. In a nutshell, everything told is in a topic, you can build quite nice multi-site solution with NSX. :)

STO2997-SPO The vExpert storage game show EMEA 

Jeopardy style gameshow, PureStorage vs. VMware. Quite fun to watch and lot's of small information. But impossible to even try to write up this stuff.

Last session of this day: SDDC1176 - Aske the Experts vBloggers

Link tip: http://vmwaretips.com/

Interesting chat with four vBloggers, and hosted by VCDX, lot's of VMware experience on same stage.

On those last two sessions of day, lot's of little and interesting things, but nothing to write on a blog about :)

Day will end with a VMworld 2014 Europe party...