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the inventory of vCenter
• vShield App with Data Security
As above but adds inspection of sensitive data based on violations
reported by the appliance.
• vShield Edge
Provides network security for applications such as vCloud Director and
comes with common network components such as DHCP, VPN, NAT and
Load-balancing
• vShield Endpoint
Offloads anti-virus and anti-malware to dedicate virtual appliance. The
appliance is always on updating signatures made available via VMware’s
3
rd
party partners. Protects VMs that are powered on, and automatically
updates powered off VMs with new signatures when they powered back
on. It ships as a virtual appliance together with a “hypervisor” module
that is loaded by the ESX VMkernel. This works in harmony with what’s
called the “Security Virtual Machine” or SVM. This is provider by third-
party to VMware such as Trend Micro or Bitdefender.
Note: This diagram is taken from Bitdefender’s website. Bitdefender “Security for Virtual
Environments”. It’s quite a good graphic because it shows both the VMware and third-party together.
So you can see that vShield and the 3
rd
party management console both speak to vCenter. vShield
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