How to Build Guest Clusters on Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…

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VMware pushes admins to uninstall vulnerable, deprecated vSphere plugin (CVE-2024-22245, CVE-2024-22250)

VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP), a plugin for VMware vSphere, has two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-22245, CVE-2024-22250) that could be exploited by attackers to mount authentication relay and session hijack attacks. The vulnerabilities haven… Continue reading VMware pushes admins to uninstall vulnerable, deprecated vSphere plugin (CVE-2024-22245, CVE-2024-22250)

Broadcom and Google Unveil New VMware License Portability Plan for Businesses

Broadcom and Google have announced a new license portability plan that will allow enterprise customers to run VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Broadcom is also actively advocating for the benefits of the changes to its VMware products among partners and customers. In the new license portability scheme, customers who purchased VMware Cloud Foundation software from…

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Does emulation/software virtualization provide more isolation/security vs hardware virtualization?

From my understanding:

I can emulate many different architectures and systems with qemu as a user(mode) process.
There is separate user address space per process.
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How to transfer files from a virtual machine to the host without risking getting infected?

I have to transfer some files such as movies, TV series and other large stuff (so I can not to use a cloud) from a virtual machine to the host. I read that an infected virtual machine can spread malware to the host using the shared folder,… Continue reading How to transfer files from a virtual machine to the host without risking getting infected?

Is hardware linked between different operating systems installed in same computer?

I know the safest bet If I want to remain anonymous is having 2 separate computers, but I was curious if having 2 OS in different hard drives (both encrypted) but on same computer the same? Is the hardware linked?
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