Introduction

Entrust CloudControl integrates with VMware vSphere by protecting your vCenters and ESXi hosts. CloudControl organizes your vSphere inventory into categories to help you find information about your vSphere deployment. With vSphere, you must keep insiders such as virtual administrators in their “swim lanes.” CloudControl uses role and asset-based access control to help you define who can do what to which objects. It also uses workflows supporting secondary approval for sensitive and high impact operations. Entrust CloudControl identifies configuration errors in VMware vSphere hosts using pre-built assessment frameworks. It uses active remediation and proactive monitoring ensuring ongoing compliance.

Product configurations

Entrust has successfully tested the integration of Entrust CloudControl with VMware vSphere in the following configurations:

System Version

VMware vSphere

7.0.3 and 8.0.0

Entrust CloudControl

6.6.0

Requirements

Before starting the integration process, familiarize yourself with:

  • The documentation and setup process for VMware vSphere.

  • The documentation and setup process for Entrust CloudControl. The online documentation contains everything needed to successfully install and deploy CloudControl.

Entrust recommends that you allow only unprivileged connections unless you are performing administrative tasks.