Tuesday, July 26, 2022

openKylin 开源操作系统 ready to download

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

Nutanix HCI vs Sangfor HCI

 

 

Nutanix HCI

Sangfor HCI

Remarks

Hypervisor Support

AHV / vSphere ESXi / Hyper-V

SANGFOR aSV

Nutanix AHV officially certified and support third-party mainstream application or OS (e.g. Oracle / RHEL / Security virtual appliance / Backup software).

 

Sangfor aSV

Sangfor Hypervisor aSV Named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Sangfor's hypervisor able to virtualize x86 servers and create virtual servers based on that, it comes with built-in VM management, backup, high availability, distributed resource scheduling and automated hot add for VM.

Ref: https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-hci-brochure

 

IDC 2021 Q1 HCI market share in China, Sangfor is 13.3% higher than SmartX and Nutanix in China mainland market.

Ref: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4BOErtnuNNW2RgGMKbAQXg

 

 

HCI Management

Nutanix Cloud Management

SANGFOR Cloud Platform(SCP)

Nutanix not only provide HCI management capability, but also advance features like cloud like operation console that automate IT operation tasks, forecast resource usage and capacity planning…etc

 

Sangfor HCI Management:

Sangfor's management HCI and SCP is web-based and visualized, VM resource consumption is displayed in real-time, all of Sangfor's cloud features are unified and able to be managed from the web UI, it also includes comprehensive logs and alerts. Sangfor cloud platform, runs on HCI, supports multi-tenancy, self-service portal, billing, approval workflow customization and automation, also supports management for x86 physical servers, VMware and AWS.

Ref: https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-hci-user-manual

https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-scp-user-manual

 

 

Automation features

DBaaS (Era) / App Self Services / Playbook

IT Automation, Self-Service Portal, Sangfor DMP, security automated response

Nutanix provide different automation features to helps you simplify application management and operation tasks.

E.g. DBaaS (Era) – Multiple DB automation and management

IaaS – Automated application deployment and management

Playbook – Automate IT operations tasks

 

Sangfor Automation Features:

IT Automation, Self-Service Portal

Sangfor DMP

Standardized database service delivery, automated operation and maintenance management, real-time monitoring and data backup protection

Ref: https://www.sangfor.com.cn/product-and-solution/sangfor-cloud/dmp

 

Cyber Command correlated security service

1.     For scenarios like zombie network, CC works with distributed firewall to quarantine infected cloud host automatically.

2.     In ransomware scenario, CC leverages storage snapshot API to take snapshot of the infected VM to minimize loss.

3.     For mining scenario, CC sends command to power off/ suspend the mining VM to avoid unnecessary resource consumption

 

 

Security feature

Network micro segmentation / Ransomware protection / WORM unified storage

SANGFOR aNET/ NFV

Nutanix HCI platform are security ready HCI platform that help you meet certification and standards with ease


Nutanix official compliance and certification
https://www.nutanix.com/trust/compliance-and-certifications

 

Sangfor aNET:

1.        Sangfor aNET support network micro segmentation, Distributed firewall, NFV(NFV-NGAF, NFV-SSL and so on).

2.        Can integrate with Sangfor NDR solution

3.        Built-in WAF protect HCI console

Cloud Native Application

Cloud native ready

PaaS-KubeManager

Nutanix are ready for cloud native solutions. It offer k8s deployment and management on AHV. Also certified for Redhat Openshift platform for advance DevOps environment

 

Sangfor PaaS Features:

PaaS-KubeManager: Sangfor PaaS KubeManager is based on Kubernetes, it supports built-in Harbor-based image registry, application store, auto-scaling for PODs, multi-cluster management, integrated web interface as well as KubeCtl interface, CSI integration with aSAN, supports 3rd party App Store and standard Kubernetes API.

Ref: https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-kubemanager-brochure

https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-kubemanager-whitepaper

https://www.sangfor.com/downloads/sangfor-paas-solution---kubemanager

 

 


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Thursday, July 21, 2022

McAfee Endpoint Security deteced a file with an unknown reputation pop up after deploy McAfee TIE

User will receive a pop up like the following:

 

 

In the McAfee report, you will find a event prompt – timed Out (If user did not respond) and the action taken will be "Adaptive Threat Protection Allowed"

Event Category

Threat Type

Action Taken

Prompt - Timed Out

Trojan

Adaptive Threat Protection Allowed




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Cybersechub announced several threat intelligence (TI) feeds provided by HKCERT, FortiGuard Labs and TrendLabs

 

Cybersechub announced several threat intelligence (TI) feeds provided by HKCERT, FortiGuard Labs and TrendLabs today (20/7/2022). For members, who is able to subscribe it to put into your firewall and SIEM to automate security and respond. It is for free.

 

You can automate the integration with your systems via the machine-to-machine (M2M) threat intelligence application programming interface (API) feature.  By subscribing the M2M sharing service, you can collect the latest indicators of compromise (IoCs) data in machine readable formats (CSV / JSON / STIX) from multiple sources in one go and correlate the IoCs with the system logs of your organisation in order to react promptly to potential cyber attacks.

 

 

https://www.hkcert.org/blog/hkcert-and-cybersec-infohub-fully-support-open-threat-intelligence-campaign

 

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Saturday, July 16, 2022

VooV Meeting and WeMeet troubleshooting

If you receive the following errors:




Delete those file at the following:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Tencent\VooVMeeting\Global\Database

腾讯
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Tencent\WeMeet\Global\Database

Remark:
The proxy setting and also some saved setting will be removed. (You can backup the proxy setting by backup the file "proxy.dat")

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Saturday, July 9, 2022

Nutanix HCI vs SmartX HCI

 

 

Nutanix HCI

SmartX HCI

Remarks

Hypervisor Support

AHV / vSphere ESXi / Hyper-V

ELF / vSphere ESXi/Citrix XenServer

Nutanix AHV officially certified and support third-party mainstream application or OS (e.g. Oracle / RHEL / Security virtual appliance / Backup software).

 

SmartX SMTX software is certified by Citrix and Vmware. And SMTX software is also certified by many domestic vendors, such as UOS OS, Kylin OS, Kunpeng and Phytium.

HCI Management

Nutanix Cloud Management

SmartX CloudTower

Nutanix not only provide HCI management capability, but also advance features like cloud like operation console that automate IT operation tasks, forecast resource usage and capacity planning…etc

 

SmartX HCI management:

CloudTower provides advanced features including:

1. Cross-cluster migration

2. Content library

3. Self-service portal

4. Resource optimization and recommendation

5. USB device

6. One-click upgrade

7. Active-active cluster

8. Restful API and CLI management

9. VM level or volume level storage QoS

10. Placement group

Automation features

DBaaS (Era) / App Self Services / Playbook

No such product

Nutanix provide different automation features to helps you simplify application management and operation tasks.

E.g. DBaaS (Era) – Multiple DB automation and management

IaaS – Automated application deployment and management

Playbook – Automate IT operations tasks

 

Currently, SMTX does not have DBaaS or PaaS products.

Security feature

Network micro segmentation / Ransomware protection / WORM unified storage

Everoute

Nutanix HCI platform are security ready HCI platform that help you meet certification and standards with ease


Nutanix official compliance and certification
https://www.nutanix.com/trust/compliance-and-certifications

 

Everoute is an SMTX micro-segmentation product.

1. It supports setting network security policies according to vm labels.

2. It also supports isolating abnormal VMs in the cluster.

Cloud Native Application

Cloud native ready

Roadmap only

Nutanix are ready for cloud native solutions. It offer k8s deployment and management on AHV. Also certified for Redhat Openshift platform for advance DevOps environment

 

Cloud native solution is in the roadmap. The new solution will support managing VM and containers (k8s-based) in one platform.


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Friday, July 1, 2022

Fireeye (Trellix) Network Security (NX) failed to reconnect (via proxy to connect Internet) when Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS) traffic routed to another DC during schedule maintenance

Error message: 'Critical: 1# subscriber:OpenDNS is with http response code:502 details…..502 Bad Gateway

 

Check Cisco Umbrella Service status: there are schedule maintenance the traffic being re-routed to another DC.

https://status.umbrella.com/#/

 

Resolution:

 

Run CLI – 'show health system warning' and show fenotify healthcheck' to check the Details for subscriber status. Fix the subscriber

 

Run CLI – 'fenotify healthcechk recheck' fter fix the subscribers config and server

 

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