vShield Administration Guide
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vShield Edge
vShieldEdgeprovidesnetworkedgesecurityandgatewayservicestoisolatethevirtualmachinesinaport
group,vDSportgroup,orCisco
®
Nexus1000V.ThevShieldEdgeconnectsisolated,stubnetworkstoshared
(uplink)networksbyprovidingcommongatewayservicessuchasDHCP,VPN,NAT,andLoadBalancing.
CommondeploymentsofvShieldEdgeincludeintheDMZ,VPNExtranets,andmulti‐tenantCloud
environmentswherethevShieldEdgeprovidesperimetersecurityfor
VirtualDatacenters(VDCs).
Standard vShield Edge Services (Including Cloud Director)
Firewall:SupportedrulesincludeIP5‐tupleconfigurationwithIPandportrangesforstatefulinspection
forTCP,UDP,andICMP.
NetworkAddressTranslation:SeparatecontrolsforSourceandDestinationIPaddresses,aswellasTCP
andUDPporttranslation.
DynamicHostConfigurationProtocol(DHCP):ConfigurationofIPpools,gateways,DNSservers,and
searchdomains.
Advanced vShield Edge Services
Site‐to‐SiteVirtualPrivateNetwork(VPN):UsesstandardizedIPsecprotocolsettingstointeroperatewith
allmajorfirewallvendors.
LoadBalancing:SimpleanddynamicallyconfigurablevirtualIPaddressesandservergroups.
vShieldEdgesupportssyslogexportforallservicestoremoteservers.
vShield App
vShieldAppisaninterior,vNIC‐levelfirewallthatallowsyoutocreateaccesscontrolpoliciesregardlessof
networktopology.AvShieldAppmonitorsalltrafficinandoutofanESXhost,includingbetweenvirtual
machinesinthesameportgroup.vShieldAppincludestrafficanalysisandcontainer‐basedpolicy
creation.
vShieldAppinstallsasahypervisormoduleandfirewallservicevirtualappliance.vShieldAppintegrates
withESXhoststhroughVMsafeAPIsandworkswithVMwarevSphereplatformfeaturessuchasDRS,
vMotion,DPM,andmaintenancemode.
vShieldAppprovidesfirewallingbetweenvirtualmachinesbyplacingafirewallfilteronevery
virtual
networkadapter.Thefirewallfilteroperatestransparentlyanddoesnotrequirenetw orkchangesor
modificationofIPaddressestocreatesecurityzones.YoucanwriteaccessrulesbyusingvCentercontainers,
likedatacenters,cluster,resourcepoolsandvApps,ornetworkobjects,likePortGroupsandVLANs,to
reducethenumber
offirewallrulesandmaketheruleseasiertotrack.
YoushouldinstallvShieldAppinstancesonallESXhostswithinaclustersothatVMwarevMotion™
operationsworkandvirtualmachinesremainprotectedastheymigratebetweenESXhosts.Bydefault,a
vShieldAppvirtualappliancecannotbemovedby
usingvMotion.
TheFlowMonitoringfeaturedisplaysallowedandblockednetworkflowsattheapplicationprotocollevel.
Youcanusethisinformationtoauditnetworktrafficandtroubleshootoperational.
N
OTEYoumustobtainanevaluationorfulllicensetousevShieldEdge.
NOTEYoumustobtainanevaluationorfulllicensetousevShieldApp.
CAUTIONDonotinstallvShieldZones/AppontheESXhostwherevCenterServerisrunning.