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Virtualization management, security, and tool sets

Virtualization management, security, and tool sets

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Virtualization management, security, and tool sets

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- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson on Virtualization Management, Security, and Tool Sets. In this lesson, we'll first talk about a handful of best practices when it comes to virtualization management, we'll then talk about virtual hardware security, and finally, we'll finish up with a discussion on installation of guest OS tools. Starting off with a handful of best practices in a virtualized environment. Some of these best practices include ensuring things like redundancy and high availability to avoid any single point of failure. Next is the importance of regular maintenance and patching so that we can minimize downtime and ensure that we're keeping our tools secure. It's also really important to adhere to things like vendor provided hardening instructions so that we can ensure our configurations of the systems as well as access controls for both network and permissions within the environment are as secure as they can reasonably be. And along those same lines, we should also make…

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