VCM divides compliance into two broad categories:
Machine group compliance
Virtual environment compliance
In this category, compliance is checked at the operating system level, such as for all the supported versions of Windows or Linux.
In this category, the compliance of the ESXi hosts, vCenter, and virtual machines present in vCenter is checked.
Now, as we are ready with the rule group, let's start populating it with the rules for our organization. There are two ways we can create the rules: either copy what is created in the standard compliance packs we downloaded in the first recipe and modify it as per our requirement or create the rules from scratch.
In this recipe, we will create a custom compliance rule based on machine group compliance.