Installing The Vshield Manager And Vshield Zones; Obtain The Vshield Manager Ova File; Install The Vshield Manager Virtual Appliance - VMware VSHIELD APP 1.0 Quick Start Manual

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Installing the vShield Manager and
vShield Zones
VMware vShield provides firewall protection, traffic analysis, and network perimeter services to protect your
vCenter Server virtual infrastructure. vShield virtual appliance installation has been automated for most
virtual datacenters.
The vShield Manager is the centralized management component of vShield. You use the vShield Manager to
monitor and push configurations to vShield App, vShield Endpoint, and vShield Edge instances. The vShield
Manager runs as a virtual appliance on an ESX host.
VMware vShield is included with VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1. The base VMware vShield package includes the
vShield Manager and vShield Zones. You can configure the vShield Zones firewall rule set to monitor traffic
based on IP address‐to‐IP address communication.
Installing the vShield Manager is a multistep process. You must perform all of the tasks that follow in sequence
to complete vShield Manager installation successfully.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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"Obtain the vShield Manager OVA File" on page 17
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"Install the vShield Manager Virtual Appliance" on page 17
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"Configure the Network Settings of the vShield Manager" on page 18
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"Log In to the vShield Manager User Interface" on page 19
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"Synchronize the vShield Manager with the vCenter Server" on page 19
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"Register the vShield Manager Plug‐In with the vSphere Client" on page 20
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"Change the Password of the vShield Manager User Interface Default Account" on page 20
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"Install vShield Zones" on page 20
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"Where to Go Next" on page 21

Obtain the vShield Manager OVA File

The vShield Manager virtual machine is packaged as an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) file, which
allows you to use the vSphere Client to import the vShield Manager into the datastore and virtual machine
inventory.

Install the vShield Manager Virtual Appliance

You can install the vShield Manager virtual machine on an ESX host in a cluster configured with DRS. The
target ESX host must be managed by the same vCenter instance as the ESX hosts on which you want to deploy
vShield Zones or vShield App instances. A single vShield Manager serves a single vCenter Server
environment.
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