BobNiaan
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Using Ansible to Harden ESXi 6.5

Been working on a project that requires me to automate the hardening of my ESXi 6.5 hypervisor using Ansible by following the VMware Hardening Guidelines. So I've been wondering whether there's anyone out there that have tried to use any automation scripting tools like Ansible to do automation of hardening on their hypervisor and have some sort of pointers or playbooks that have been done so that I could refer to. I can't seem to find any sort of resources out on the net that touches on this after researching for a while. Any help would be great !

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Sreejesh_D
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hi, I havent used Ansible for ESXi or VM hardening. But lot of customers use Orchestrator and PowerCLI for this. You can find plenty of articles on web. Here are couple of them.

Automate the Hardening of Your Virtual Machine VMX Configurations - VMware vSphere Blog

http://mycloudrevolution.com/2016/01/11/vm-hardening-mit-vrealize-orchestrator-oder-powercli/