Virtualization Security: Protecting Virtualized Environments

Chapter 8

Change and Configuration Management

With proper oversight, virtualization can significantly enhance change and configuration management practices through simplified template creation and management, but this usually requires some changes to existing processes as well as new methods of doing things.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

• The fundamental concepts of change and configuration management, and how they relate to virtualization
• Integrating virtualization into existing workflows
• Assessing and creating new processes for change and configuration management
• Creating VM templates in VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix virtualization platforms

Change and Configuration Management Overview

There is a well-known concept ...