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VMware View Security Essentials

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware View Security Essentials

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Most people associate security with network security and focus on firewalls and network monitoring. However, there is more to security than that. Security starts with the establishment of a stable environment, protecting this environment not only from intrusion, but also from malicious intent. It is about tracking the issue and recovering from it. These elements of security are what this book aims to address. VMware View Security Essentials addresses the topic of security in the corporate environment in a new way. It starts with the underlying virtual infrastructure and then delves into securing your base, your connection, and your client. This is not only a “how-to” book, but is also a book that explains the background and the insights of View security for the experienced professional's desktop virtualization. This book takes you through the four major View security areas. Each area deals with all the aspects of security and explains the background as well as laying out simple-to-follow recipes to implement a higher security standard. We start at the Virtualization base and work our way through the various View server types. We will then dive into the problems and issues of securing a connection before we address the security of the desktop itself. We conclude with a look into the backing up of our View installation and preparing for disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

The vSphere environment


Let us start this section by diving into the backup at the root, the vSphere environment. The vSphere environment is the base on which VMware View runs. Not only do the View desktops run here but also the various View Servers. Backing up the vSphere environment is a book in itself; however I will shortly discuss the main components that require backup.

When we look at a vShpere 5.1 environment, we are looking at the following three main components: SSO, Inventory, and vCenter service. SSO and vCenter each require a database. Backing up the VM on which SSO and vCenter service are running is only good if you want a very fast recovery, however the most important piece to backup is the database where SSO and vCenter store their configuration.

You might want to backup the vSphere management VMs if you have added special configurations into the operation system, such as firewall rules or certificates. Most enterprises use tools from the storage or backup vendor to backup...