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VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphere

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398750
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to VMware vSphere FREE CHAPTER 2. VMware vCenter Server 3. Creating Virtual Machines 4. Managing Virtual Network 5. Network Virtualization with VMware NSX 6. Managing Virtual Storage 7. Working with VSAN 8. Managing Virtual Machines 9. Resource Management and Performance Monitoring 10. Incorporating vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and DRS 11. Securing and Updating vSphere 12. vSphere 6.0 Overview Index

Understanding security profile services and lockdown mode


VMware ESXi built-in firewall is known as security profile. It is the firewall for the entire host including the management interface, but not the virtual guest machines running on the host. We have already learnt how to configure the security profile firewall using vSphere Web Client and the command shell. To ensure central manageability, we can use a feature called lockdown mode through vCenter Server.

Lockdown mode

Lockdown mode is used to restrict a host to be accessed and operated by vCenter Server only, to enhance security. Only vpxuser has the authentication, and can perform any operations on the ESXi host directly.

In accordance with vSphere 6.0 latest changes I think it is necessary to add another sentence after this one:

With vSphere 6.0 it is also possible to specify a list of users that are eligible to access the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI). For this, the advanced setting DCUI.Access needs to be altered on the ESXi...

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