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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Installing Linux Operating System

Installing Linux Operating System

After clicking the public account card below, reply with “001“, to get the 154-page Linux study notes compiled by KeGan. 1. Operating System Installation Explanation 1. Minimal Installation Explanation System installation is the first step in learning the Linux system. This process involves many basic knowledge points about the Linux system, which is a skill … Read more

Industrial Digital Transformation: The Path for Old PCs and IPCs

Industrial Digital Transformation: The Path for Old PCs and IPCs

We are in a new trend of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, which is like giving factories a pair of high-tech “wings” to help them fly higher and faster. Currently, many factories face a headache: what to do with those old PCs and IPCs (Industrial Personal Computers)? They are like a pile of “antiques” sitting … Read more