VMware vRealize Business Standard

VMware vRealize Business Standard is a system for controlling VM costs and sharing resources to better manage demand and budget, capital and operating costs, effectively account for cloud resources, and lower total cost of ownership.

With vRealize Business Standard, organizations can optimize costs and resource selection for internal virtual infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud.

2021: Fix the vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the server

Positive Technologies announced on May 14, 2021 that it helped VMware fix a critical vulnerability in the VMware Realize Business for Cloud cloud resource performance analysis tool.

The built-in update mechanism allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server, authentication was not required.

The vulnerability discovered by Positive Technologies expert Yegor Dimitrenko received ID CVE-2021-21984 and a score of 9.8 on the CVSSv3 scale. The error belongs to the Pre-auth RCE class (executing arbitrary commands on behalf of an unidentified user). Among the potential threats is complete control over the server, the ability to carry out attacks on the company's infrastructure.

Due to the incorrect configuration of the application, an unidentified attacker could get access to the built-in application update function, "said Yegor Dimitrenko. - This feature allows you to execute arbitrary commands on the server, operating the legitimate mechanism for installing the latest versions of the product. These errors associated with incorrect access list settings are based on insufficient functionality testing for product releases.

To eliminate the vulnerability, you must be guided by VMware's official notification guidelines.

2015

VMware vRealize Business Standard 7

On October 15, 2015, during VMworld 2015 Europe, VMware introduced the VMware vRealize Business Standard 7 release.

According to developers, the product will help IT teams make a digital business transformation in their organizations.

VMware vRealize Business Standard 7 includes several new and modified tools that provide IT teams with increased transparency and control over the cost and quality of IT services. The release includes pricing and pricing policies for private and public clouds, including VMware vCloud Air, AWS, and all other clouds supported by vRealize Automation.

VMware vRealize Business Standard 7 supports Microsoft Azure to easily and fully compare the cost of private and public clouds. Improved capabilities to analyze past events will enable IT to provide a detailed business cost report, including data from private and public clouds, accurate date-specific spending information and monthly cost forecasts, and costs grouped by business services to provide their business context. Cost planning and optimization functions will allow you to visualize the capacities used and available in the data center, simulate loads and analyze their impact on residual capacity or costs, and numerically assess the potential for savings through usage opportunities.

Price and availability

VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard will be available in Q4 2015 as a standalone product within VMware vCloud Suite and VMware vRealize Suite.

Business Cloud Management

Business Cloud Management

According to 2015 information, VMware vRealize Business features include:

• Ensure visualization the cost of virtual infrastructure resources private , and public resources, clouds as well as the efficiency of their use through ready-made means of integration with solutions, and. VMware vCenter vRealize Automation vCloud Director
• Analyze the cost of virtual infrastructure resources, private and public clouds, and their utilization rates on a "what if" basis.
• Automatically determine the cost of services available in the hybrid cloud self-service mode.
• Ready-to-use performance tests for cloud and virtual environments, resources, costs, and operational efficiencies.

VMware vRealize Business Video Presentation

Introduction to VMware vRealize Business (2015)