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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere Security Cookbook Over 75 practical recipes to help you successfully secure your vSphere environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170341
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Greer Michael Greer
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Threat and Vulnerability Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. ESXi Host Security 3. Configuring Virtual Machine Security 4. Configuring User Management 5. Configuring Network Security 6. Configuring Storage Security 7. Configuring vShield Manager 8. Configuring vShield App 9. Configuring vShield Edge 10. Configuring vShield Endpoint 11. Configuring vShield Data Security 12. Configuring vSphere Certificates 13. Configuring vShield VXLAN Virtual Wires Index

Configuring the port group security


Port groups provide different types of functionalities in the vSphere environment. For example, a VMkernel port group can be used for fault tolerance logging, IP storage, and vMotion. Another type of port group is a virtual machine (VM) network type. Multiple VM networks are used to segment traffic into different trust zones such as internal (trusted) and external (untrusted).

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to vSphere Web Client. This client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

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

We must be logged in to vSphere Web Client with a user account in the administrators group.

How to do it…

Navigate to the vCenter view and then perform the following steps:

  1. Expand Datacenter from the pane on the left-hand side.

  2. Expand Cluster from the pane on the left-hand side.

  3. Select a valid host from the pane...

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