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Note: fltmc shows that the vsepflt.sys drive has been loaded into the guest operating system.
Importing the vShield OVA File
The setup of vShield begins with downloading the single .OVA file that contains
the appliance itself. Once download it can be imported into vCenter, and set to
run on your chosen VMware Cluster.
Each component of vShield needs to be installed – and sadly there is not a “bulk
method” to do this at a cluster level which is a shame. It is possible to automate
a great deal of the vShield configuration. That’s something we have chosen not
to document in this instance. However, if its matter that’s of interest to you we
would recommend checking out two blog post from PowerCLI supremo and
VMware employee, Alan Renaud:
http://www.virtu-al.net/2012/01/04/vmware-vshield-powershell-module/
This introductory post to separate posts:
http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/14/powershell-automated-install-of-vshield-5/
http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/30/automated-install-of-vshield-services/
1. From within vCenter, select File and Deploy OVF template
2. Browse to locate the OVA file in our case called “VMware-vShield-
Manager-5.0.0-473791.ova”. You build number is likely to vary
3. Click Next to accept the description
4. Click Next to accept the EULA
5. Set the vShield Manger name for the vCenter Inventory and folder
location – in our case we place the manager in the “Infrastructure”
folder.
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