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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

By : Michael Greer
Book Image

VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

By: Michael Greer

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing certificates and revocation lists


Certificates can be assigned for use with VPN if required. A trusted certificate can be obtained by a private (internal) certificate authority, a public certificate authority such as Verisign, or a number of other providers. Revocation lists are checked periodically to ensure that a certificate that has been issued has not been revoked for any reason and is still valid.

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to vShield App through the vSphere Client plugin. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

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

Ensure the vCenter account used to log in has administrative rights to vShield Manager.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. Launch vSphere Client using an account with administrative rights, if it is not already open.

  2. Navigate to Home | Inventory | Hosts and Clusters...