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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 SSL VPN-Plus


The vShield Edge SSL VPN-Plus functionality provides a mechanism for remote-end users to access corporate assets over a secure connection. As with all SSL VPN solutions, a client is required to be downloaded prior to use of the SSL VPN-Plus service.

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to the 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 from the menu bar.

  3. Navigate to Datacenter.

  4. Select the Network Virtualization tab.

  5. Navigate to Actions | Manage to open the LabEdge01 vShield...