This article will help you to deploy and configure the vShield manager appliance on vSphere environment. We should deploy vShield Manager to provide the network services to vCloud director. Each vCenter server which you are adding to vCloud director must be associated with one vShield manager . vShield manager is the central management pane to manage all the vShield pieces. vShield suite offers various products to tighten the security of the VM’s and to provide the network services.
vShield suite provides the following products.
- vShield Manager – To manage below listed products.
- vShield Zones – IP based Firewall
- vShield App – Grouping the VM’s with similar security settings
- vShield Edge – Offers DHCP,NAT,VPN services
- vShield Endpoint – Provides Hypervisor Level Guest security.
Download vShield Appliance from VMware website.
1. Login to vSphere Client and select the ESXi host where you want to deploy it.
2.Right click the ESXi host and select “Deploy OVF template”
3.Select the local file and browse to the vShield appliance file which you have downloaded from internet.
4.Review the template details and accept the extra configuration options.
5.Enter the VM name and select the datacenter for deployment.
6.Select the virtual disk provision type as “thin” and select the datastore of your ESXi host.
7.Select the destination network .
8.Set the password for admin user and privileged mode user.
9.Just review the summary of the deployment and click finish to deploy it.
10.In the recent tasks , you can see the deployment status.
Please click on Page 2 to see the post configuration of vShield Manager
11.Once the deployment is completed , you can see that new VM will be created .Just power on it.
12. Launch the vShield VM console .You can login using admin user id. Password will be which you have set in step 8.
13.Enter “enable” to gain root access of the vShield manager. Then execute “setup” to set the networking for this appliance.
14. After 5 minutes , open the browser and enter the vShield Manager IP address.
15. Login using user “admin” and password “default” . You will get below home screen.
16.You can add the vCenter server to vShield manger. Just click on the edit button for vCenter Server.
Details : vCenter Server name or IP , User name & password.
17.Once you have added the vCenter server , you see new items are added under settings & reports.
We have successfully deployed the vShield Manager appliance and configured the network . At the last ,we have connected the vShield appliance with vCenter server.
These all pre-work for vCloud Director setup . Stay tuned.
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