Installing vShield App

The installation of vShield App is accomplished through the vShield web console as introduced in Chapter 7, Configuring vShield Manager. The vShield App is required to provide host-level security and firewall services to each individual ESXi host. This process must be completed on each ESXi host individually.

Getting ready

A Core Infrastructure Suite (CIS) or vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) license must be installed prior to installing vShield App and vShield Edge.

vShield App is installed per ESXi host, and vShield Manager must have been previously installed as a prerequisite.

In order to proceed, we require access to vShield Web Console. The client can be run on any modern Windows or Mac desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

vShield Web Console requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.

Ensure the account used for login has administrative rights to vShield Manager.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps...