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Almost 7 years ago
Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Provides the capability of the higher end firewall products to handle most network tasks without issues.
About 8 years ago
As Chris and Karthik have mentioned, step by step. Do you have enough hosts to handle your VM's while one host is updating? Also, you have to update firmware for each of the hosts. I did a small environment (5 hosts, 140 VM's) and used the Dell Enterprise iDRAC to get…
About 8 years ago
Answered a question: Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM
In my experience such a question actually yields more questions in response than a simple answer
1) Both should work – however there are some questions
2) Number of actual devices protected by the firewall
a. Servers
b. PCs/laptops
c. Mobile…
About 8 years ago
Answered a question: VMware vs. Hyper-V - Which do you prefer?
I have used VMWare since version 1.0 when it ran on top of Windows, Hyper-V (2008r2 and 2012-r2), Parallels Viruozzo and Citrix Xen. There are several factors that I consider, and cost is not always the leading factor
1) the types of VM's I need to use
2) Disaster recovery…
About 8 years ago
Answered a question: Sophos XG vs Fortigate UTM
1) Both should work – however there are some questions
2) Number of actual devices protected by the firewall
a. Servers
b. PCs/laptops
c. Mobile devices
d. Any other IoT devices (wearables, beacons or sensors)
3) Is the firewall the only wireless AP in the network?
4) How…
About 8 years ago
I like the TZ series for very small office, however I generally recommend and implement the NSA series for my clients. (I am not a reseller, I just sell my time). General rule - buy the next model up on a SonicWall if you want it to be sufficient for at least 3-5 years…
Projects
About 8 years ago
moved a VMWare environment to a data center,moved a VMWare environment to a data center, configured replication and expanded from 3 hosts to 7 hosts within 10 hours
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Sonicwall NSA, VMware ESXi, Horizon View, ManageEngine OpManager, Desktop Central, SD+Following
Reviews
Almost 7 years ago
Cisco Secure Firewall
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Comments
About 8 years ago
Server Virtualization Software
About me
Ms. Phillips brings over 20 years cumulative experience in multiple IT disciplines ranging from IT security, virtualization, network design, project management, Voice over IP, eDiscovery, forensic analysis and LAN/WAN design.
In addition, Ms. Phillips is an evangelist of resilient and redundant network design, based on the capabilities of various organizations. Continuity of Operations (COOP) has come a long way in the past decade, and leveraging public and private cloud environments have become a staple of modern network design.
Over the past five years, Ms. Phillips has designed and implemented VMWare deployments for small and medium business in the Washington, DC metro area. The largest deployment has grown from a three host environment into a seven host environment split between the main office and a SOC-2 compliant data center. This particular environment supports 140 virtual servers (mixed OS), with replication of critical virtual servers between locations. Network security monitoring is provided by AlienVault OSSIM, NetFlow analysis and firewall log analysis tools.
Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
About 8 years ago
