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Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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The ESXi Lockdown mode


Environment security is greatly increased by limiting the ability to directly access ESXi hosts. The Lockdown mode can be enabled when first adding a host to the vCenter inventory, or it can be configured using the vSphere Web Client. The Lockdown mode can be easily disabled and enabled at any time in order to directly access a host, if required, for support or troubleshooting.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to enable the Lockdown Mode option on an ESXi host:

  1. Access the Security Profile menu of the ESXi host using the vSphere Web Client. The following screenshot displays the Lockdown Mode host configuration in the vSphere Web Client:

  2. Select Lockdown Mode for the ESXi host, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Configure Exception Users, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click on OK to complete the Lockdown Mode configuration.

How it works…

When the lockdown mode is enabled, the host is managed using the vSphere Client connected to the managing vCenter Server...

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Published in: Jun 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785283468

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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