The installation of vShield Endpoint requires a previously installed and running vShield Manager Version 5.5. The vShield Manager installation steps are covered in Chapter 7, Configuring vShield Manager. The installation of the vShield Endpoint service must be completed prior to the deployment of the third-party endpoint security appliance.
In order to proceed, we require access to the vShield App through the vSphere Client plugin. The plugin can be enabled through the Plug-ins menu in vSphere Client. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.
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The vShield vSphere Client plugin requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.
vShield Manager must be installed and the vCenter account used for login has Enterprise Administrator rights to vShield Manager.