Wow! I should change “released” to say “soon to be unleashed upon the world” !!!

Trend Micro has done it AGAIN – hitting the ground running this year – easily outpacing most of the competition in the race to win the cloud-enabled anti-malware software market.

From cloud-enabled, VDI-aware endpoint protection, to vmsafe API-based virtual machine protection through the core protection modules, Trend has a forward-looking and effective (and affordable) security solution for every cloud-savvy Data Center.

Earlier this summer, and given our track record with both messaging and security, eGroup was invited to participate in the InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance (IMSVA) 8.0 Hybrid SaaS Email Security Early Adopter Program. The results were pretty fantastic!

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Another new feature introduced with vSphere 4.1 that doesn’t seem to get any "coverage" is Network I/O Control (NetIOC). Very similar to the I/O Control introduced for storage, NetIOC uses shares and hard limits to determine who gets access to the network resource (bandwidth).

When moving to 10Gb ethernet, it’s common to see substantially fewer links/cables, where traditionally as many as 12 1Gbps links were used to provide the necessary bandwidth to all of the network traffic in a virtualized environment. Because there are fewer physical links, with the same number of machines using them, it’s important to have the ability to prioritize, limit, or otherwise "protect" the traffic of important functions.

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One new "feature", or probably better described as an enhancement, introduced in vSphere 4.1 is Load Based Teaming.

Briefly, Load Based Teaming takes the traditional three load balancing choices (route based on originating virtual Port ID, IP hash, or Source MAC) and offers a dynamic, "on-the-fly" policy for better utilization of bandwidth.

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One of the little known/used enhancements from the upgrade to vSphere (and the accompanying VM Tools update) is the in-Windows perfmon DLLs. See image below–

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If you run into an issue with the “Overview” page under the Performance Tab in vCenter, then follow these steps to resolve.

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