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Introduction: Hey guys, There is a renewed push at my organization to deploy vmware...everywhere. I am rather excited as I know we have a lot of waste when it comes to resources. What has pricked my ears up however, is the notion of using this technology in our very busy public facing DMZ's. Today we get lots of spikes of traffic and we are coping very well. 40x HP blades, apache/php/perl/tomcat/ all in HA behind HA F5's and HA Checkpoint FW's. (20 servers in 2 datacentres). The idea is, we virtualise these machines, including the firewalls onto hosts vmware clusters that span the public interface to our internal networks. This is something that has gone against the #1 rule I have ever lived by while working on the inet. No airgaps from the unknown to the known! I am interested in feedback on this scenario. From a resource perspective, our resource requirements in the DMZ will be lowered over time due to business change and we still have a lot of head room in our capacity. Do you think t
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1 Hey guys, There is a renewed push at my organization to deploy vmware. [sent-1, score-0.135]
2 I am rather excited as I know we have a lot of waste when it comes to resources. [sent-5, score-0.15]
3 What has pricked my ears up however, is the notion of using this technology in our very busy public facing DMZ's. [sent-6, score-0.673]
4 Today we get lots of spikes of traffic and we are coping very well. [sent-7, score-0.204]
5 The idea is, we virtualise these machines, including the firewalls onto hosts vmware clusters that span the public interface to our internal networks. [sent-10, score-0.51]
6 This is something that has gone against the #1 rule I have ever lived by while working on the inet. [sent-11, score-0.187]
7 From a resource perspective, our resource requirements in the DMZ will be lowered over time due to business change and we still have a lot of head room in our capacity. [sent-14, score-0.6]
8 All I can see is more complexity, higher risk and more skill required to manage what today is a very simple and resilient setup with no security flaws. [sent-16, score-0.382]
9 VMware and some big name companies/gov agencies stand by the notion the software dividing the host machine is more than capable are keeping the DMZ's in check. [sent-17, score-0.592]
10 It just doesn't sit well with me, knowing we may have a public facing website on the same host machine which is running a critical safety or customer management tool. [sent-18, score-0.69]
11 Apart from the ease of management to grow/shrink (something we don't need todo in any rush), what are the advantages to increase risk and complexity? [sent-19, score-0.342]
12 Costs wise - our website costs are minuscule compared to the revenue we generate thru them - Would you risk what is a sound and stable environment because it sounds cool to 'virtualise' or is there something I am missing? [sent-21, score-1.035]
13 The website I am referring to in my post hits a peak of $250/second and is responsible for 90% of revenue to the business. [sent-24, score-0.359]
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