Palo Alto Networks firewall with WildFire security subscription can request WildFire Cloud to analyze Web URLs seen in email messages passing the firewall. By default PAN-OS will not forward any content found in encrypted sessions to WildFire Cloud, this includes…
Optimizing a performance for virtualized systems is always a trade-off between consolidation ratios and single VM performance. These instructions are geared towards maximum performance and network connectivity reliability (reduce packet drops to minimum) of a single Virtual Machine at cost…
If you live outside US, like me, you might want to change default keymap on Photon OS. This is very easily done. Install Linux Keyboard Tools package, kbd, and run localsectl set-keymap <keymap_code>. Below is an example how to set…
Since I joined Santa Monica Networks Oy I have been extending my knowledge from VMware technologies to networking and network security solutions like firewalls. One networking security vendor I have come to love, is Palo Alto Networks. I run their…
Yesterday we saw a big product launch from Tintri, maker of VM-aware storage array VMstore. Up until yesterday Tintri VMstore arrays have been Hybrid-Flash arrays which contain both SSD and HDD capacity with efficient space saving methods and intelligent tiering…
Next leap second adjustment is scheduled for 30th of June 2015 at 23:59:60 UTC and it may cause issues on NTP synchronized devices and operating systems. Systems based on older Linux kernels are known to be affected by leap second, several…
Google removed SSL support from recent Chrome versions because of major security flaws in SSL protocol. Unfortunately this breaks some web applications which are running on web servers configured to support only SSL and not more secure TLS, VMware Data…
If you are using thin provisioned block volumes for your VMware vSphere VMFS datastores you will certainly benefit from this new vCenter Orchestrator workflow I created. VMware introduced VAAI UNMAP capability in vSphere 5.0, and since vSphere 5.0 update 1…