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    VMware View Security Essentials
    VMware View Security Essentials
    VMware View Security Essentials
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    VMware View Security Essentials

    By Langenhan Daniel

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    A practical and fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to secure your virtual environment.This book is a “how-to” for the novice, a “reference guide” for the advanced user, and a “go to" for the experienced user in all the aspects of VMware View desktop virtualization security.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJul 26, 2013
    ISBN9781782170099
    VMware View Security Essentials

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      VMware View Security Essentials - Langenhan Daniel

      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

      VMware View Security Essentials

      VMware View Security Essentials

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      Credits

      Author

      Daniel Langenhan

      Reviewers

      Christian Rudolph

      Ramses Smeyers

      Acquisition Editor

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      About the Author

      Daniel Langenhan is a client-focused virtualization expert with more than 18 years of international industry experience.

      His skills span the breadth of virtualization, ranging from Architecture, Design, and implementation for large multitier enterprise client systems to delivering captivating education and training sessions in security technologies, and practices to diverse audiences.

      He also possesses an extensive knowledge and experience in Process management, Enterprise level storage, and Linux and Solaris operating systems.

      Utilizing his extensive knowledge, experience, and skills, he has a proven track record of successful integration of virtualization into different business areas, while minimizing cost and maximizing reliability and effectiveness of the solution for his clients.

      He has gained some experience working with major Australian and International vendors and clients. Daniel's consulting company is well established with strong industry ties in many verticals; for example, Finance, Telecommunications, and Print. His consulting business also provided services to VMware International.

      I would like to thank my wife Renata for her tireless support, without her this book would have not been possible.

      About the Reviewers

      Christian Rudolph is a Cloud consultant who has worked with virtualization technologies since 2003. He started as a virtualization infrastructure architect and worked in several server consolidation projects. Later, he built the operational team for the virtualization and was the responsible technical lead for this. During this time, he also got in touch with possible virtualization solution for end users, where he was part of some projects to build virtual desktops for end users. Since 2012, he is responsible to build and design the cloud solution of his company with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service and desktop-as-a-service.

      Christian holds the VCP-DCV 2/3/4/5 certification and has been also selected as a vExpert in 2013.

      Ramses Smeyers is part of Cisco Technical Services where he works with the Datacenter Solutions support team. His main job consists of supporting customers to implement and manage Cisco UCS, VDI, and VXI infrastructures. He has a very strong background in computing, networking, and storage, and has more than 10 years of experience deploying enterprise and service provider datacenter solutions. His relevant certifications include VMware VCP/VCAP DCA|DCD/VCDX, Cisco CCIE Voice, RHCE, and Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist.

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      Preface

      Most people associate security with network security and focus on firewalls and network monitoring. But security is more than that. It starts with establishing a stable environment, protecting this environment not only from intrusion but also from malicious intent. Last but not the least it is

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