OS Virtualization is at the heart of Cloud/Clustered computing – finding a computing services solution that allows you to maximize your hardware as well as providing reasonable performance and functionality can be a challenge. There are a number of prominent commercial vendors of this type of technology (VMWare, Citrix/Xen, Microsoft and more); many of these commercial products are linked to or based on Open Source virtualization solutions. After exploring a number of these solutions I came across
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Problem – I need a simple way to install/update/re-purpose/network boot/manage systems or servers on my network. Is it possible to create a simple infrastructure to provide this type of flexiblity?
Defense in Depth (DiD) is a layered security posture – all devices (or as many as possible) in your infrastructure must be able to stand alone (for some period of time) if the ‘outer wall’ is breached. Many systems currently on the Internet have multiple ‘weak links’ (no firewall, outdated binaries, mis-configured applications, no security monitoring, etc.) If the outer wall comes down then the candy store is open and everything is free…
