Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical InfrastructurePepperweed Consulting
Delivering complex business services in your organization demands a rigid approach to server deployment and management. Modern data centers often have distributed virtual and physical servers as well as management teams which make the challenge even more difficult. Increasing headcount in your group is typically not an acceptable answer so how do you manage the growing complexity? The answer lies in a complete physical and virtual server life cycle management solution which provides the automation of application deployments.
In Part IV of its five-part webinar series "Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World", Pepperweed Consulting will discuss how a combination of HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration can streamline the deployment of your operating systems, software and patches for both your physical and virtual infrastructure. We will also analyze how compliance and application release management play a key role in ensuring control over your server deployments.
The Cloud Enabled Datacenter - Smarter Business 2013IBM Sverige
With Cloud Enabled Datacenter projects, clients are
cutting IT expense and complexity through optimization
techniques and technologies, all this while improving
efficiency of service delivery. We will discuss how
your organization can exploit key technologies like
orchestration to manage the changing demands of your
end user communities. Presenter: Glenda Lyon, World Wide Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, Business Development, IBM. Mer från dagen på http://bit.ly/sb13se
Webinar: Deploying the Combined Virtual and Physical InfrastructurePepperweed Consulting
Delivering complex business services in your organization demands a rigid approach to server deployment and management. Modern data centers often have distributed virtual and physical servers as well as management teams which make the challenge even more difficult. Increasing headcount in your group is typically not an acceptable answer so how do you manage the growing complexity? The answer lies in a complete physical and virtual server life cycle management solution which provides the automation of application deployments.
In Part IV of its five-part webinar series "Managing IT Operations in a Virtualized World", Pepperweed Consulting will discuss how a combination of HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration can streamline the deployment of your operating systems, software and patches for both your physical and virtual infrastructure. We will also analyze how compliance and application release management play a key role in ensuring control over your server deployments.
The Cloud Enabled Datacenter - Smarter Business 2013IBM Sverige
With Cloud Enabled Datacenter projects, clients are
cutting IT expense and complexity through optimization
techniques and technologies, all this while improving
efficiency of service delivery. We will discuss how
your organization can exploit key technologies like
orchestration to manage the changing demands of your
end user communities. Presenter: Glenda Lyon, World Wide Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, Business Development, IBM. Mer från dagen på http://bit.ly/sb13se
A perspective on cloud computing and enterprise saa s applicationsGeorge Milliken
A perspective on Cloud computing and SaaS for Enterprise applications by a SaaS industry veteran.
Please make sure you read the speakers notes, there's a significant amount of content there.
IBM PureApplication System - Application platform system with integrated expertise. It consolidates workloads, simplifies infrastructure and delivers services rapidly using built-in expertise.
Virtualize Business Critical Applications with VMwareCaldwellC
In our experience, extending the adoption of virtualization to business critical applications, such as
Oracle, SQL, Exchange, SAP or Enterprise Java, often requires executive sponsorship—sometimes
from multiple organizations. Unfortunately, breaking down siloes, misperceptions and other barriers
to virtualization and getting consensus about how to deliver critical business resources requires both
time and validation. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.
E’ una piattaforma di Digital Workspace che consente di distribuire e gestire con semplicità e sicurezza qualsiasi applicazione su qualunque dispositivo, integrando funzionalità di controllo dell’accesso, gestione delle applicazioni e gestione degli endpoint multipiattaforma. È disponibile come servizio cloud o per la distribuzione on-site.
Web Application Security for Continuous Delivery PipelinesAvi Networks
Watch on-demand webinar: https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/web-application-security-continuous-delivery-pipelines
Applications today have evolved into containers and microservices deployed in fully automated and distributed environments across data centers and clouds. Application services such as load balancing, security, and analytics become critical for continuous delivery.
To secure modern web applications, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and WAF need to be applied quickly. We will share a reference implementation from Avi Networks.
Join this webinar to learn:
- CI/CD in the web application security context
- Challenges and solutions integrating a modern web application firewall (WAF) into the application development pipeline
- How to create processes that support both security and development requirements
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Presentation at Impact 2012 Mumbai:
This IBM PureSystems presentation was presented by Amol B Mahamuni, Program Director ISL, IBM PureApplication System Product Management
VMware Horizon with F5 BIG-IP vs. Citrix XenDesktop with Citrix NetScalerPrincipled Technologies
Many enterprises use Application Delivery Controllers to balance the load on their VDI servers and to provide other capabilities. In our tests, we found that the solution with VMware Horizon and F5 BIG-IP was roughly three times quicker to set up and install than a competing solution, Citrix XenDesktop with NetScaler. The VMware-F5 solution was also more cost effective, saving up to 15.7 percent per concurrent user. These findings make VMware Horizon and F5 BIG-IP a very compelling choice.
This presentation looks at the practical issues for moving applications to the cloud.
It addresses the need to choose the applications carefully and how to decide which type of cloud platform is suitable for delivering cloud benefits.
A perspective on cloud computing and enterprise saa s applicationsGeorge Milliken
A perspective on Cloud computing and SaaS for Enterprise applications by a SaaS industry veteran.
Please make sure you read the speakers notes, there's a significant amount of content there.
IBM PureApplication System - Application platform system with integrated expertise. It consolidates workloads, simplifies infrastructure and delivers services rapidly using built-in expertise.
Virtualize Business Critical Applications with VMwareCaldwellC
In our experience, extending the adoption of virtualization to business critical applications, such as
Oracle, SQL, Exchange, SAP or Enterprise Java, often requires executive sponsorship—sometimes
from multiple organizations. Unfortunately, breaking down siloes, misperceptions and other barriers
to virtualization and getting consensus about how to deliver critical business resources requires both
time and validation. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.
E’ una piattaforma di Digital Workspace che consente di distribuire e gestire con semplicità e sicurezza qualsiasi applicazione su qualunque dispositivo, integrando funzionalità di controllo dell’accesso, gestione delle applicazioni e gestione degli endpoint multipiattaforma. È disponibile come servizio cloud o per la distribuzione on-site.
Web Application Security for Continuous Delivery PipelinesAvi Networks
Watch on-demand webinar: https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/web-application-security-continuous-delivery-pipelines
Applications today have evolved into containers and microservices deployed in fully automated and distributed environments across data centers and clouds. Application services such as load balancing, security, and analytics become critical for continuous delivery.
To secure modern web applications, security policies including SSL/TLS, ACLs, IP Reputation, and WAF need to be applied quickly. We will share a reference implementation from Avi Networks.
Join this webinar to learn:
- CI/CD in the web application security context
- Challenges and solutions integrating a modern web application firewall (WAF) into the application development pipeline
- How to create processes that support both security and development requirements
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Presentation at Impact 2012 Mumbai:
This IBM PureSystems presentation was presented by Amol B Mahamuni, Program Director ISL, IBM PureApplication System Product Management
VMware Horizon with F5 BIG-IP vs. Citrix XenDesktop with Citrix NetScalerPrincipled Technologies
Many enterprises use Application Delivery Controllers to balance the load on their VDI servers and to provide other capabilities. In our tests, we found that the solution with VMware Horizon and F5 BIG-IP was roughly three times quicker to set up and install than a competing solution, Citrix XenDesktop with NetScaler. The VMware-F5 solution was also more cost effective, saving up to 15.7 percent per concurrent user. These findings make VMware Horizon and F5 BIG-IP a very compelling choice.
This presentation looks at the practical issues for moving applications to the cloud.
It addresses the need to choose the applications carefully and how to decide which type of cloud platform is suitable for delivering cloud benefits.
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
MGT220 - Virtualisation 360: Microsoft Virtualisation Strategy, Products, and...Louis Göhl
Learn about the Microsoft virtualisation strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud--and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate Microsoft virtualisation products and discuss how you can use them to solve today's IT issues (cost cutting, consolidation, business continuity, green IT), develop new computing solutions (VDI) and build a foundation for a more dynamic IT environment, including cloud computing. The session reviews all of the latest Microsoft virtualisation products, including Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server, as well as the System Center management platform (including Virtual Machine Manager 2008). Learn about the innovative pricing and licensing structure that allows further savings to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. Learn how you can enable IT to become a cost cutting mechanism with Microsoft virtualisation and management technologies.
DELL Technologies - The Complete Portfolio in 25 MinutesSmarter.World
To get an idea of the size, strength, and scope of the Dell Technologies product and solution offering, we will be showcasing the entire Dell Technologies family and their corresponding solutions over the next 25 minutes.
This is an high level DELL Technologies portfolio overview in 25 minutes.
Version v3 March 2018
On Wednesday September 24th, I hosted the first ever Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum at Orange Labs in South San Francisco. The event sponsored by Intel, Orange / France Telecom and Enomaly was a one-day meeting of major stakeholders active in cloud computing with an interest in the creation of cloud standardization and interoperability. The forum's goal was to define an organization that would enable interoperable enterprise-class cloud computing platforms through application integration and stakeholder cooperation.
https://f5.com/solutions/enterprise/reference-architectures/vmware-horizon-view-optimized-solution
Secure access, single sign-on, load balancing, and server health monitoring are just some of the ways F5 improves the user experience and manageability for VMware end-user computing.
VMware Horizon with View enables you to deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops to users while increasing your business agility, control, and security. But maintaining performance, availability, and a good user experience—no matter where users are or which device they’re using—is critical to the success of your VMware Horizon with View implementation.
With F5’s proven solutions for VMware Horizon with View, you can ensure that users enjoy fast, simple, and secure access to their virtual desktops. You gain greater access control and server efficiency while delivering high performance, high availability, and a more productive environment for your business.
2. Manage Risk Manage Costs Manage Costs Manage Change Adapting IT to the Current Business Climate Are you able to respond to changing business needs quickly and on demand? Are you able to reduce capital and operational costs in a sustained manner? Are you prepared to quickly recover from system breakdown, disasters or other risks? Efficiency Control Choice
3. Business Context Front-Office Call Center Web Front-Office / External Apps & Desktops Need new customer web app now Should I outsource my call center? Should I consider SaaS or run in Datacenter? Logistics Manufacturing Intranet Apps Back-Office / Internal Apps & Desktops Need secure access for all incl. 3rd parties Need High- Availability for all Apps Annual system downtime cost in millions Complex, Costly, Hard-to-maintain IT Infrastructure IT Infrastructure / Data Center Complex, Costly, Hard-to-maintain IT Infrastructure
4. The Problem Where the IT Budget Goes Overwhelming complexity >70% of IT budgets just to keep the lights on <30% of IT budgets goes to innovation and competitive advantage 5%Infrastructure Investment 23%Application Investment 42%Infrastructure Maintenance 30%Application Maintenance Your Business Can Change Only as Fast as Your IT Can
11. Building the High Performance Data Center As the CIO… With VMware you… So that your business
12. Realizing the Fiscal Advantages As the CFO… With VMware you… So that your business
13. Increasing Flexibility Without Sacrificing Security As the Security and Compliance Officer… With VMware you… So that your business
14. Delivering Apps as Dynamic, Cost-Efficient IT Services As Application Owners… With VMware you… So that your business
15. Gaining Control and Management of Desktops As IT Stakeholders… As IT Stakeholders… With VMware you… So that your business
16. Consolidated, Simplified, Easy to maintain Private Cloud (Self – Service) Meeting Business Needs at all Levels Front-Office Call Center Web Front-Office / External Apps & Desktops Self-service applications On-shore or Off-shore Datacenter or Out-Source Choice Logistics Manufacturing Intranet Apps Back-Office / Internal Apps & Desktops Absolute security for your business critical apps All your apps available when you need them Reduce annual downtime costs by millions Control IT Infrastructure / Data Center Efficiency Complex, Costly, Hard-to-maintain IT Infrastructure
17. Manage Risk Manage Costs Manage Change Derive Tangible Benefits Across Your Enterprise Today Current State of the Economy / Business Amplified Impact of downtime Fast Changing Business Conditions Agility to exploit new opportunities or meet changing conditions hasn’t been more important than it is today! Reduce costs and improve your Profitability and Return on Assets today and sustain in future! You cannot risk losing customers or incur additional costs due to downtime of any kind today! Higher, Sustained Efficiency Greater Resilience & Control Greater Agility & Responsiveness Efficiency Control Choice
18. Cloud Solutions and Business Needs Consolidate Resources Lower CapEx Economies of Scale Lower OpEx Usage Based Chargeback Reduce Complexity Cloud Solutions Solve Business Needs Increase agility – new applicationenvironments in minutes not weeks Applications as a Service Cloud Protect business without building new datacenters Availability and Disaster Recovery as a Service Single pane of glass to manage internal and external cloud Federation with External Cloud
19. The Cloud… as Architecture Virtualization is the key to making all of this happen in an evolutionary way VMware vSphere 4.0 Cloud OS New Apps Existing and multiple future app models Existing Apps Management SLA management model Policies Security, Compliance… Datacenter/ Cloud Software Scale and availability through software Hardware Industry Standard building blocks
20. Becomes a Matter of Specifying Required SLAs Rolling Out a New Business Service Availability Availability Security Internal Cloud Security APP Performance Performance Lowest TCO
21. On the Internal or External Cloud External Cloud Internal Cloud APP APP APP Management Management Owned and Operated by IT Cloud OS Rented by IT Cloud OS Internal Cloud External Clouds Unlock new market based economies of scale, service and innovation beyond what currently exists today
22. Cloud OS - The Underpinning For Cloud Infrastructures Private Cloud Management Management App Loads Federation & Choice App Loads App Loads App Loads App Loads vSphere 4.0 Cloud OS Cloud OS vSphere 4.0 Standards Internal Clouds ExternalClouds
23. Application Services Infrastructure Services VMware vSphere™ – The Industry’s First Cloud Operating System Dynamic Resource Sizing Firewall Anti-virus Intrusion Prevention Intrusion Detection Clustering Data Protection Scalability Security Availability vSphere 4.0 vStorage vCompute vNetwork Network Management StorageManagement & Replication Storage Virtual Appliances Hardware Assist Enhanced Live Migration Compatibility
24. Application Services Infrastructure Services Next Generation Management Enhances Control vCenterSuite Management Scalability Security Availability vSphere 4.0 vStorage vCompute vNetwork
25. vApp – Self Describing Applications Enable Automated SLA Management Dynamic Resource Sizing Clustering Data Protection Firewall Anti-virus Intrusion Detection Intrusion Prevention APP APP APP OS OS OS Scalability Security Availability Availability vApp Security Scalability
26. vSphere Hardware Extensible Management Suite Self Service Management Self Service Portal Service Catalogue Billing/Chargeback Availability Security Performance VMware vCenter Suite SLA Driven Management Model .2 Milliseconds 99.99% High VMware Ready Management Solutions Configuration Capacity Performance Availability Operations Provisioning Infrastructure Management
27. Choice of End-to-End Integrated Management Enterprise System Management Non-Virtual Management Tools vCenter Physical-Only Environments/Non-x86/Non-VMware Non-Virtualized
28. Federation Cloud vServices App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS Load Balance Firewall Tomcat IIS Oracle 100+ ServiceProvider Partners Broad Compatibility Built on vApps Application andInfrastructure VMs vCloud Initiative
29. IT Services Increasingly Difficult to DeliverDistributed Multitier Apps & Rigid Infrastructure IT Service Delivery challenges Frequency of configuration changes Ensure service levels across app tiers Implement app-specific HA for each tier Web Tier Application Tier Database Tier
30. Even Email is Becoming More Complex Exchange 2007 + BlackBerry Exchange 2003
31. Simple, Cost-Efficient Availability for Exchange 2007 Native VMware Infrastructure Edge Client Hub Edge Hub Client Mailbox MS LCR VMware HA & VMotion Simple Eliminate complexity of MS clustering One HA solution for all Exchange roles Cost-effective Windows and Exchange Standard Edition No dedicated standby servers Reliable VMware HA for unplanned downtime VMotion for planned downtime LCR for data replication Network Load Balancing Mailbox Mailbox MS CCR
32. Standard Edition (processor licensing) Enterprise Edition (processor licensing) $298K $108K $79K $45K >70% Reduction >55% Reduction SQL Server ConsolidationReduce HW and SW Costs by >50% Pre-VMware SQL SQL SQL SQL 4 servers (2 x dual-core) Post-VMware SQL SQL SQL SQL 1 server (2 x quad-core)
33. Business-Critical Application Momentum % of customers running appsin productionon VMware 56% 53% 50% 41% 34% 36% 27% 24% MS Exchange MS SharePoint MS SQL Oracle Middleware Oracle DB IBM WebSphere IBM DB2 SAP Source: VMware customer survey, September 2008, sample size 1038 Data: Within subset of VMware customers running a specific app, % that have at least one instance of that app in production in a VM In a recent Gartner poll, 73% of customers claimed to use x86 virtualization for mission critical applications in production Source: Gartner IOM Conference (June 2008) “Linux and Windows Server Virtualization Is Picking Up Steam” (ID Number: G00161702)
34. ESX 3.5 ESX 4.0 4 VCPUs 8 VCPUs 64 GB per VM 255 GB per VM 9 Gb/s 40 Gb/s 100,000 200,000+ vSphere 4 Delivers Performance for Demanding Applications 95% of applications 1 to 2 CPUs < 4 GB at peak < 2.4Mbits/s % of Applications < 100 at peak Application Performance Requirements
38. Customers Accelerate Application Delivery “With VMware, if I want to test a subset of our servers for upgrades or migrations, I can take them down, clone them, and I’ve got servers I can use for our test.” Whitney Kuszmaulm, The Cleveland Indians Company “We can give our end users a virtual machine in half an hour, when it takes two to three weeks to spec out, order, and set up a physical one.” Bill Frost, Senior IS Engineer, Boise Inc.
39. EFI’s Virtualized ERP 2005 EFI Streamlines SAP ERP Upgrade Upgrade objectives Upgrade software from SAP R3 V4.7 -> MySAP ERP 2005 Upgrade hardware from Unix to x86 with RedHat Linux Customization Testing Staging Provisioning Create dev environments on the fly Run 100% more test cycles Streamline staging process Provision apps in minutes Results achieved 33% reduction in planned time to upgrade 50% reduction in staff overtime Kept upgrade project within budget Mitigated project creep due to unforeseen requirements
40. Customers Maximize Application QoS “VMware technology takes away any worries that I have about having to size the system correctly right at the start. We’ve got an environment now where we can scale up and down to meet whatever requirements come along.” Adrian Jane, Infrastructure and Operations Manager, University of Plymouth "Thanks to VMotion, we can perform maintenance on the hosts any time, without having to worry about downtime. Our Exchange, BES, and SAP environments are always available even if we choose to do maintenance during critical business hours. It’s a huge convenience.“ Bill Moore, IT Infrastructure Manager, Nuvasive Inc. “ESX gives mehigh-availability capabilities without entering the terrible world of Oracle RAC and SQL clusters, which both carry a tremendous amount of operational overhead, inefficiency and troubleshooting problems. Thanks to ESX, we have a high-availability solution for our database servers that we didn’t have before.” Peter Amstutz, Chief of Technical Requirements and Design, DCMA Information Technology
41. with VMware FT Transforming Availability Service Levels Hardware Failure Tolerance Continuous With Current Clustering Technology Automated Restart with VMware HA With Current Clustering Technology Unprotected 100% 10% 0% Application Coverage
42. Automate DR for all Apps with Site Recovery Manager Automate failover of entire datacenters Eliminate need for dedicated failover servers Conduct frequent DR tests
43. Application Operating System Protection Engine VMware Infrastructure VMware VMsafe API that enables protection of VMs by inspection of virtual components in conjunction with hypervisor Isolation of protection engine from malware Broad ranging coverage of virtual machine CPU, memory, storage and network
44. App App App App App App OS OS OS OS OS OS VMware ESX VMware ESX Ecosystem Enablement with VMware VMsafe Multi-function Security Appliance Agent-less deployment of partner security services Single security VM for multiple security services AV, Firewall, IPS Security policy and state moves with virtual machine SecurityVM SecurityVM vNetwork Distributed Switch Integrated, more effective, comprehensive security solutions within the virtual infrastructure Better security than physical servers!
45. VMware vShield Zones Self-learning, self-configuring firewall Service Trust zones unaffected by VMotion or network topology Dynamic firewall policy using application protocol awareness Dynamic security capacity using infrastructure vServices Security policies auto-adapt to network reconfiguration or upgrades APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS VMware vSphere™
47. Give us a call today! We are here to help. Start saving your money on CAPEX & OPEX. What if you would use your resources (hardware, software, people) in a better way starting today? Temperfield is certified partner of VMware and has certified staff on VMware vSphere, ranging from presales, technical presales to post-implementation support engineers. Give us a call today: +40 31 432 80 83 Calin Damian Tanase +40 720 555 811
Editor's Notes
Cloud solutions can help meet today’s business challenges.
VMware vSphere™ is a cloud operating system - A cloud operating system is a new category of software that is specifically designed to holistically manage large collections of infrastructure – CPUs, storage, networking – as a seamless, flexible and dynamic operating environment. Analogous to the operating system that manages the complexity of an individual machine, the cloud operating system manages the complexity of a datacenter. Although alternative approaches may be pursued, VMware believes that virtualization is the key underpinning technology to enable the cloud.The cloud OS comprises infrastructure services that transform server, storage and network hardware into a shared resource and application services that are built in and available to all applications that run on it.Also equally important for an OS is the vibrant ecosystem that builds and complements it providing plug and play services to usersNote: vCompute, vStorage and vNetwork represent categories of functionality provided by vSphere that abstract and aggregate server, storage and network hardware and allocate it precisely and efficiently to applications.Availability, Security and Scalability represent the categories of services that are provided by vSphere to all virtual machines that run on it.
In addition to built in controls, next generation management services provided by VMware vCenter suite provides enhanced control of vSphere environments.
Also retain the choice of end –to-end management solutions . While vCenter Suite of management solutions comprehensively manages virtual environments, it also plugs in seamlessly into broader enterprise frameworks allowing for a choice of management tools for non x86 and x86 environments
Here are some concrete cost savings realized by 4 customers running SAP and Exchange in production on VMware. The savings are real and substantial, reducing Exchange and SAP hosting costs by very large amounts.
Partner solutions that utilize VMsafe have the following advantages over existing security mechanisms:They can protect VMs without needing to install agents inside each VM They can perform a multitude of tasks that protect a VM holistically ( monitor VM components on the host, nw traffic through the distributed switch) AV, Firewall, IPS can all be in one appliance.They can do all these tasks efficiently in a dynamic environment where the virtual machine moves from host to host. For e.g. if a VM is being monitored on a particular host, it carries its security state with it to the next host where another appliance starts monitoring it.
VMware vShield Zones, a new security service for VMware’s Cloud OS, vSphere, ensures strict compliance with security policies and industry regulations for user data as customers adopt cloud computing with virtual environments for increased efficiency and flexibility. Previously, compliance required diverting network traffic to external physical appliances resulting in disconnected ‘islands’ of infrastructure. With VMware vShield Zones, customers can now create logical zones in the virtual datacenter that span all of the shared physical resources, and each zone represents a distinct level of trust and confidentiality. This allows businesses to comply with corporate security policies and regulations on data privacy while still running applications efficiently on shared computing resource pools. ( this comes to VMware from our blue lane acquisition)Traditional security products, such as firewall appliances, require that all network activity pass through a handful of fixed physical locations in order to be monitored. Virtualized applications, in contrast can be migrated between physical hosts for higher resource efficiency and improved uptime. Therefore, companies virtualizing security sensitive applications faced the choice of either leveraging virtualization capabilities such as live migration for optimal load balancing and availability, or enforcing strict security compliance. To solve that dilemma, most customers ended up dividing their virtual environments into smaller, less efficient clusters for areas such as their Internet-facing demilitarized zones (DMZ’s) or consumer credit data processing systems subject to Payment Card Industry regulations. VMware vShield Zones enables customers to create security zones within enterprises or in multi-tenant cloud infrastructures, where security policies are enforced even as virtual machines dynamically migrate between hardware devices. Deployed as a virtual appliance and integrated into vCenter Server, vShield Zones makes it easy to centrally manage and enforce compliance with security policies across large pools of servers and virtual machines. Built-in auditing capabilities make compliance straightforward and verifiable. Example : today you send network traffic to an external Network IDS/IPS box which becomes a chokepoint. With this feature all that traffic can be handled internal to the virtual infrastructure. Similarly, there is also the capability for packet/protocol monitoring to be on the alert for SQL insertion or other data oriented attacks. By combining multiple layers of the security “onion” within the virtual infrastructure you can more easily pass security and compliance audits will eliminating much of the costs associated with these activities