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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7,

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789613377
Length 756 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Paolo Valsecchi Paolo Valsecchi
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Martin Gavanda Martin Gavanda
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Karel Novak Karel Novak
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Andrea Mauro Andrea Mauro
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER
2. Evolution to vSphere 6.7 3. Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure 4. Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments 5. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 6. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7 7. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 8. Section 2: Managing Resources
9. Managing Networking Resources 10. Managing Storage Resources 11. VM Deployment and Management 12. VM Resource Management 13. Section 3: Advanced Topics
14. Availability and Disaster Recovery 15. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 16. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment 17. Troubleshooting Your Environment 18. Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment
19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab 20. Assessment 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

vCenter Server, ESXi, and VM hardening

VMware vSphere environments are sometimes deployed using the default configuration of many features and services and they are not regularly checked for potential improvements in terms of VMware security standards and best practices.

VMware regularly updates its hardening guides available at https://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html which provides essential information and recommendations on how to make the vSphere infrastructure more secure.

We have tried to pinpoint several of the most essential aspects of the vSphere infrastructure hardening in the following sections.

ESXi hardening

To protect the ESXi hosts against unauthorized intrusion and misuse, consider the following...

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