Virtualization and Forensics

9 Virtualization Challenges

Information in This Chapter

• • Data Centers
• • Security Considerations
• • Malware and Virtualization
• • Red Pill, Blue Pill, No Pill
• • Additional Challenges
• • Virtualization Drawbacks

Virtual environments come with special challenges. Some of the challenges covered in this chapter include data centers, security considerations, storage virtualization, malware, and the drawbacks associated with the use of virtual environments.

Data Centers

A data center, sometimes called a server farm or cluster, can present special challenges to forensic investigators. The computing environment contained within a modern data center is the perfect environment for virtualization. A machine in a data center may hold 30 to 50 virtual ...