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A public draft of the vSphere Security Hardening Guide for vSphere 5.1 was released a few weeks back by my colleague Mike Foley. Since then I have been asked by several people if I had a chance to update my vSphere Security Hardening Report Script. The answer was unfortunately no due to other projects I had been working on and this script as well as others are maintained outside of my normal day...

With more and more IT departments now updating their VMware vSphere environments to vSphere 5.1 it is a good time for them to review their vSphere security.  The good news is that VMware have just released a ‘draft’ (Revision A) version of the vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide for public download and review. There is one area not currently covered in this latest vSphere hardening guide offeri...

The much anticipated vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide was just released last week by VMware and includes several new guidelines for the vSphere 5 platform. In addition to the new guidelines, you will also find that the old vSphere 4.x guideline identifiers (e.g. VMX00, COS00, VCENTER00) are no longer being used and have been replaced by a new set of identifiers. You might ask why the change? T...

VMware released earlier this week the first draft copy of the vSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide which provides several changes to the vSphere 4.0 version released last year. Unfortunately there was no change list provided and you have to manually go through both documents to get the differences. Luckily I did the heavy lifting for you and here are the changes in 4.1 version:Edit: It looks lik...