VMware View Security Essentials电子书

VMware View Security Essentials

Table of Contents

VMware View Security Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to View

VMware View definitions

Summary

2. Securing Your Base

vSphere considerations

VMware High Availability (HA)

Fault Tolerance (FT)

DRS and resource pools

Capacity planning

Basic View hardening

vSphere hardening

Operating system (OS) hardening

User accounts

A View Administrator Console user

Services

Logging

The Event Database

Logfiles

VMware support logs

SSL certificates

Creating a Certificate Authority (CA) and obtaining a certificate

Creating a CA on AD

Creating a certificate

Importing a certificate

Retrofit vSphere

The View Composer

Installer

Retrofit

The View Connection Server

Creating a redundant View Connection Server

Usage of a replica server

Installation of a replica server

Creating a load balanced View Connection Server

A configuration example with vCloud Network and Security (vCNS or vShield)

Summary

3. Securing the Connection

View connections

A View DMZ

View Security Server

Setup

Load balancing

General connection settings

Desktop connection

A quick look at TCP and UDP

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

PCoverIP (PCoIP)

RDP and PCoIP – direct comparison

Setting up PCoIP Secure Gateway

HTTP(s) secure tunnel

USB redirection

Multimedia redirect (MMR)

View Transfer Server

Setup

Server connection

View connect and security firewall rules

Summary

4. Securing the Client

Client software

View Client

View Agent

Local Mode

Global settings

View desktop pools

The Settings tab

The Inventory tab

The Sessions tab

The Entitlements tab

The Events tab

The Policies tab

Working with ADM templates

Importing View ADM templates

View Agent settings

View Client settings

Working with USB devices

View Persona management

Example setup

Summary

5. Backup and Recovery

Backup and recovery

The vSphere environment

VMware View Servers

Basic infrastructure

Desktop pools and linked cloning

Documenting – the ultimate backup

Backup timing

Patching the View environment

View server

View desktops

Summary

Index