Chapter 6. Configuring Storage Security
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Configuring network isolation
- Configuring iSCSI security
- Configuring Header and Data Digest
Introduction
Shared storage is very common in any small to enterprise deployment of ESXi and vCenter that requires high availability. The key here is the use of vCenter and functionality including High Availability (HA), vMotion, Storage vMotion, Fault Tolerance (FT), and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). For implementations that do not take advantage of high availability, shared storage offers minimal benefits.
vSphere offers several mechanisms. From a pure VMware perspective, there are several opportunities to secure IP-based communication between the hosts and ...
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