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VMware vSphere Security Cookbook

By : Michael Greer
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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

Installing vShield Data Security


vShield Data Security provides the ability to identify and monitor sensitive data stored in the virtualization environment. In this recipe, we will install the vShield Data Security module using vShield Manager.

Getting ready

The installation of vShield Data Security requires a previously installed and running vShield Manager (Version 5.5). The vShield Manager installation steps are covered in Chapter 7, Configuring vShield Manager.

In order to proceed, we require access to 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.

Note

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 must have Enterprise Administrator rights to vShield Manager. vShield Endpoint must...