Performance and Security Enhancement Evaluation of Virtual Networks in VMware Workstation

Abstract

In this growing age of technological improvements, we have seen how communications and management of computer networks have changed. Recently, we have seen the increased use of virtual networking for interacting online and doing remote work. Therefore, we have investigated virtual networking within VMware Workstation Pro with emphasis on performance analysis and security, by implementing ways to improve various aspects of them. Our effort has been to create a virtual network with four virtual machines (VMs) that interact with each other. Then, we conducted performance analysis, created and included optimization strategies, evaluated its security measures, and located potential threats as we simultaneously managed comparing the before and after results made through the extensive testing and validations for potential improvements and effectiveness