VMware responds to benchmark VirtualizationReview.com: “bad benchmarking”
Yesterday VMware responded to the hypervisor benchmark that virtualizationreview.com published a week ago.
The overall conclusion is that VMware calls it bad benchmarking, and their reason sounds plausible.
VMware even states that they were planning on dropping the benchmarking clause in the EULA but thanks to benchmarkings like the one from virtualizationreview.com this won’t be done.
Tripwire ConfigCheck Now Assesses VMware ESX 3.0 Hypervisor Configurations
Tripwire updated their free ConfigCheck utility to assess the security and configuration of an ESX host. The previous version only supported ESX 3.5 and the updated version also checks ESX 3.0.
Tripwire ConfigCheck provides an immediate assessment of the configurations of a VMware ESX hypervisor, comparing them against VMware hardening security guidelines, which are best practice recommendations for optimal security in virtual environments, and provides remediation instructions if any are needed. With Tripwire ConfigCheck, customers gain immediate visibility into risks that might exist in their virtual environment due to misconfiguration and are advised of recommended fixes to any configuration settings that could present future risk.
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