I found a fantastic article that talks about a free method of monitoring the event viewer for NMV related warnings. I know this functionality should be included in the product, but until it is try using blat as described in this article.

Daemon Behr has written a nice and succinct article on when and how to use more than one virtual CPU in a Virtual Machine.

A few of the highlights:

• Be very selective with vSMP only use it when applications can take advantage
• Don’t assign a VM the same amount of vCPUs as you have pCPUs
• Remember to change HALs for migrated physical machines if necessary

I know most of this is taught during the training courses, but you’d be surprised how many installs I have been to that have ignored them.

Always useful to keep in mind.

I was wondering if there’’s a GUI that sits on top of iptables to make creation of lengthy firewall policies a bit more straightforward and it turns out there most certainly is.  fwbuilder.org have written a magnificent multi-platform tool that presents a GUI to not only iptables, but PIX, FWSM, ipfilter & more.

You can download the installers for Windows, Mac & Linux as well as some extra modules here.

It really does work a charm.