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Comprehensive Overview of Common Virtualization Software

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Comprehensive Overview of Common Virtualization Software

The common server virtualization software mainly includes VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), Oracle VM, Proxmox VE, KVM, etc. Below is a brief introduction to each software along with its link: 1. VMware vSphere/ESXi Introduction: VMware vSphere is an enterprise-level virtualization platform, with ESXi being its bare-metal virtualization product, installed directly … Read more

From Virtualization to Cloud-Native Containerization: Leading the Digital Transformation of Rural Commercial Banks

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From Virtualization to Cloud-Native Containerization: Leading the Digital Transformation of Rural Commercial Banks

2020 was a year of new developments in financial technology for China’s banking industry. In August 2019, the People’s Bank of China released the “Financial Technology (FinTech) Development Plan (2019-2021)”, marking a new stage in the innovation and digital transformation of financial technology in the banking sector. Market research firm IDC believes that with the … Read more

14 Key Points for Managing Mainstream Virtualization Platforms (Including PowerVM, VMware, Citrix, etc.)

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14 Key Points for Managing Mainstream Virtualization Platforms (Including PowerVM, VMware, Citrix, etc.)

Compiled from community discussions by community experts 1. Which business systems in enterprises can be migrated to virtualization platforms? Migration can start with non-core business systems to virtualization platforms, monitoring the operational status of these systems and accumulating operational experience. Basically, most systems can be migrated to virtualization platforms, such as office applications and production … Read more

China Telecom’s Virtualization Software Centralized Procurement: Huawei and H3C Rise, Foreign Companies Retreat

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China Telecom's Virtualization Software Centralized Procurement: Huawei and H3C Rise, Foreign Companies Retreat

Recently, China Telecom announced the results of the “Centralized Procurement of Server Virtualization Software Related to China Telecom Cloud Computing (2016)” project. In this procurement, both Huawei and H3C were awarded contracts, with Huawei leading in market share closely followed by H3C. This procurement has several notable characteristics. First, it is large in scale; this … Read more

High Availability Design Solutions for VMware Virtualization Platforms

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High Availability Design Solutions for VMware Virtualization Platforms

More and more enterprises are considering virtualization to improve the efficiency of IT resources and applications while reducing operational costs. In traditional server maintenance, if a server goes down, only the applications on that server are affected, which can be resolved through methods like cluster high availability; however, in a virtualized environment, if a physical … Read more

Controversy | Which of the Three Methods for Network Traffic Mirroring in Virtualized Environments is Best?

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Controversy | Which of the Three Methods for Network Traffic Mirroring in Virtualized Environments is Best?

The following content comes from community discussions. Feel free to click to read the original text and engage with peers on this topic. How to plan and build network traffic mirroring in a virtualized environment? Currently, the company is building related systems based on network traffic mirroring, such as npm, bpc, and database SQL statement … Read more

Exploring Vulnerabilities in the VMware Workstation Renderer

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Exploring Vulnerabilities in the VMware Workstation Renderer

Background In mid-January, ZDI announced the rules for the 2017 competition, which included a substantial reward for teams that could break VMware and achieve virtual machine escape. VMware is no longer a new target; it was identified as a target in 2016. As a target, VMware has undergone various attacks, with many points of attack … Read more

Installing OpenWRT on VMware: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Installing OpenWRT on VMware: A Step-by-Step Guide

Prerequisites The host must support intel virtual technology, which is Intel’s virtualization technology. You can check and set this in the BIOS. If you encounter the following image during the installation of openwrt, it indicates that the settings were not configured or were configured but not saved. Installing VMware We go to the official website … Read more

Debugging Nt!KiSystemStartup Using IDA, WinDbg, and VMware

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Debugging Nt!KiSystemStartup Using IDA, WinDbg, and VMware

KiSystemStartup is the entry function of the kernel module nt. If you want to debug this function, simply using WinDbg and VMware won’t work (or I don’t know how to do it). Below, I will introduce how to use IDA’s GDB debugging feature in conjunction with WinDbg to debug KiSystemStartup. (Only for X64 environment) 1. … Read more

Installing PnP Device Drivers: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Installing PnP Device Drivers: A Step-by-Step Guide

This article is an excellent contribution from the Kanxue forum. Author ID on Kanxue Forum: Suifengxing Environment Preparation VMware Workstation 14 Pro Windows 10 Pro x64 Virtual Machine VS2019 Installation in the virtual machine: VS Remote Debugger msvsmon x64dbg Windows Driver Sample /devcon (Source Code) https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/master/setup/devcon After downloading, open it in VS. If you encounter … Read more