How to check VMware virtual infrastructure compliance - new tool

[MaxBeard]

I hope that this tool can help you to analyze your environment: vGate Compliance Checker - FREE

It is distributed as a single executable – no installation or registration is required.

Supported VMware product versions:

VMware vSphere 4 (Update 2)

VMware vSphere 4.1 (ESX & ESXi)

VMware vSphere 5.0

Enjoy

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Is this written in PowerShell? Do you have a Perl version?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011

Author of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. 'VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.
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[MaxBeard]

No, tool doesn't use PowerShell.

It's standalone desktop application. It uses vim API to deploy simple and small agent to the verifiable server. Agent runs Perl scripts to check server state, returns results and uninstalls itself. Results can be stored in HTML reports.

If you need Perl version you can use William Lam script (to run with vMA) or my port of this script for Windows.

But I think that you know about William script

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Yes I know about William's Script... The fact that it installs a bit of something is intrigueing and makes me wonder if anyone could hack the path in which it was installed to install something entirely false.... Look at the VASTO package and how it can do things with the vSphere Client.... Does it only check VIM issues or does it do more?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009, 2010, 2011

Author of the books 'VMWare ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2011 Pearson Education. 'VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment', Copyright 2009 Pearson Education.
vSphere Upgrade Saga -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

[MaxBeard]

Hello Edward,

Unfortunately I can't say anything about the possibility to hack Compliance Checker.

Thank you for the point about VASTO, I didn't see it before personally.

I'm not sure that I undestand your question about "Does it only check VIM issues or does it do more".

I have attached simple report sample to give your idea about Compliance Checker functionality.

With best regards, Maxim Shulga