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VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011,2012,2013,2014Īuthor of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. You want complete separation between virtualization management and the rest of the world. I have been running a virtual environment for years now and direct access to the console of a VM has just not been necessary. The best suggestion however is to just not allow it. The logging these tools provide is enough to meet audit requirements. Using a proxy, hytrust, Xceedium, or Thycotic you can let them manage the 3000 user's requests, limit the # of connections allowed at any given time (which is a must), set timeouts, but most importantly you can delegate everything through a service account inside vCenter so that you can gain better control of your environment. This way a request to access the virtual console directly is logged properly and you can use that same proxy to make requests to mount/unmount images, etc.

#Thycotic ssh proxy iso

If they need CD access for example, I provide other means to access ISO images from a common share (VCD, loop mounts) instead of requiring someone to use vCenter.Ī poor man's way of gaining the same functionality is to create a proxy service that logs all requests for console access and acts as additional security gateway into the virtualization management device(s) (ala vCenter). Personally, I tell my system administrators to just use RDP as it does not go through the virtualization management layers. I would use tools such as HyTrust, Xceedium, Thycotic, etc.

#Thycotic ssh proxy full

The solution needs to be able to integrate with the full set of VMware management products as opposed to replacing them.Īctually, you do not want to generically allow console access to a VM, instead if you do allow console access to a VM you want to monitor that access quite closely as it (other than RDP) goes through the virtualization management services (ala vCenter). What security products facilitate these kind of scenarios?Įventually vcloud or vCenter Automation Center, vCenter Operations Manager will be used. What are the strategies for doing this? Should we create a set of 'jump VMs' in a special security zone for those who need access to vCenter Server to power on VMs and take snapshots? We need to use AD where possible to define groups of users who have various privileges. Less than 50 administrators need full privileges in vCenter Server. Over 3000 users need to power on and power off VMs and take snapshots. We don't want to overwhelm vCenter server with too many simultaneous connections. There is an existing Active Directory server. Some need to take snapshots, power on, power off, and restart. Some need only to be able to power on, restart, and power off VMs. Users need to have various levels of access to virtual machines.