Testing Virtualisation Security In Cyber Situational

Introduction

This refers mainly to the act which is to create a virtual version which includes the virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices and the storage network resources. The virtualisation has been mainly for the creation of a virtual machine which works with the operating system and takes hold of the virtual machines that are separated from the underlying hardware resources (Mir et al., 2016). Here, the host machines are considered to be the actual machine on the virtualisation which takes place. Here, the guest machines are the virtual machines as well. We are going to focus on VMWare, Microsoft Hyper V and Virtual box for the comparison and for the different features.

This software works over the virtualised sets of windows for the guest OS, where they tend to virtualise the hardware for a proper video adapter, network and the hard disk serial. The VMWare virtual machines tend to become portable between the computers mainly the hosts are found to be identical to the guests. The VMware virtual machines are highly portable between the computers as every host looks identical to the guests. The enterprise servers with the vMotion allow the migration of the operations and take hold of the hardware hosts with sharing the same storage as well. The use of the same is done by the Dell technologies which provide a better computing platform for the virtualisation software and handling the services as well. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS (Donaldson et al., 2017). Here, the enterprise works without requiring any of the additional forms of the underlying operating systems.

This is for the Windows Server which is mainly to create the virtual machines on the system that is running on the windows. The Hyper-V is superseded with the virtualisation components. The server computer is easily configured to expose the individual virtual machines with one-to-one network. It works over the Windows which has been mainly on x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, where there are limitations for the windows services and is also limited to the command line interface (Lubomski et al., 2016). This is for configuring the host OS, physical hardware and the software. The operating system using this are Windows Server, Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. The companies like Cisco, Microsoft use this for the functioning. The product contains the Windows Server driver model which could be for the management process and supporting the tools with provisioning standards as well.

The Oracle VirtualBox is for the creation and the management of the different guest virtual machines with the derivation of the Windows, Linux and the OS systems where the packages are for the device drivers and the applications. This works over the software for a better and personal use where there is emulated environment where the user can easily configure about the VM under the software based virtualisation that holds the applications of the host and the guest OS (Ferrari, 2017). The software based approach is to adapt the standards which include the configuration of the guest OS code and the privilege instructions which are important for the employing of the codes.

Recommendations

For the VirtualBox, VMWare, and the Microsoft Hyper V, there is a proper use of facilities which includes the separation of the address space with handling the storage of the data and the files that are mainly in the single virtual hard disk. It is important to focus on the networking performance by eliminating the needs of specific hardware interface. This will help in handling the features and support set to run and control the guest applications for the automated software deployments. The VM storage scheme is for the VM data which is to improve the portability and then holding the extension packs for the closed source. The performance need to be mapped with new VM storage so that the data could improve the portability as well.

Conclusion

The OS has been for GUI which could be based on keeping it completely contrasting and fair. This is noted when the company is taking hold of the marketing of the different standards and working over the access of proprietary software which is providing a double profit as well. The open source standards are also available for the people with easy coding methods that are on the internet.

References

Mir, N.F., Kotte, J.N. and Pokuri, G.A., 2016. Implementation of Virtualization in Software Defined Networking (SDN) for Data Center Networks. ICN 2016, p.136.

Ferrari, M., 2017. VMware starts VMware Hosted Beta Program. Red, 2016.

Lubomski, P., Kalinowski, A. and Krawczyk, H., 2016, June. Multi-level virtualization and its impact on system performance in cloud computing. In International Conference on Computer Networks (pp. 247-259). Springer International Publishing.

Donaldson, S., Coull, N. and McLuskie, D., 2017, June. A methodology for testing virtualisation security. In Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA), 2017 International Conference On (pp. 1-8). IEEE.