Managing appliances

When at least one vShield Edge appliance has been configured and deployed, the status of the edge can be viewed from the data center network virtualization tab within vCenter. In addition to monitoring, the configuration settings for the appliance can be managed from the same interface within vSphere Client.

Getting ready

In order to proceed, we require access to vShield App through the vSphere Client plugin. The client can be run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.

Note

The vShield vSphere Client plugin requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.

Ensure the vCenter account used to log in has administrative rights to vShield Manager.

How to do it…

Perform ...

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