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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples
- Contents
- About This Book
- vSphere CLI Command Overviews
- Introduction
- List of Available Host Management Commands
- Targets and Protocols for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Supported Platforms for vCLI Commands
- Commands with an esxcfg Prefix
- ESXCLI Overview
- Connection Options for vCLI Host Management Commands
- Connection Options for DCLI Commands
- vCLI Host Management Commands and Lockdown Mode
- Managing Hosts
- Managing Files
- Managing Storage
- Introduction to Storage
- Examining LUNs
- Detaching Devices and Removing a LUN
- Working with Permanent Device Loss
- Managing Paths
- Managing Path Policies
- Scheduling Queues for Virtual Machine I/O
- Managing NFS/NAS Datastores
- Monitoring and Managing SAN Storage
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual SAN Storage
- Monitoring vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Monitoring and Managing Virtual Volumes
- Migrating Virtual Machines with svmotion
- Configuring FCoE Adapters
- Scanning Storage Adapters
- Retrieving SMART Information
- Managing iSCSI Storage
- iSCSI Storage Overview
- Protecting an iSCSI SAN
- Command Syntax for esxcli iscsi and vicfg-iscsi
- iSCSI Storage Setup with ESXCLI
- iSCSI Storage Setup with vicfg-iscsi
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Options
- Listing and Setting iSCSI Parameters
- Enabling iSCSI Authentication
- Setting Up Ports for iSCSI Multipathing
- Managing iSCSI Sessions
- Managing Third-Party Storage Arrays
- Managing NMP with esxcli storage nmp
- Path Claiming with esxcli storage core claiming
- Managing Claim Rules
- Managing Users
- Managing Virtual Machines
- vmware-cmd Overview
- Listing and Registering Virtual Machines
- Retrieving Virtual Machine Attributes
- Managing Virtual Machine Snapshots with vmware-cmd
- Powering Virtual Machines On and Off
- Connecting and Disconnecting Virtual Devices
- Working with the AnswerVM API
- Forcibly Stopping Virtual Machines with EXCLI
- Managing vSphere Networking
- Introduction to vSphere Networking
- Retrieving Basic Networking Information
- Network Troubleshooting
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Standard Switches
- Setting Up Virtual Switches and Associating a Switch with a Network Interface
- Retrieving Information About Virtual Switches
- Adding and Deleting Virtual Switches
- Checking, Adding, and Removing Port Groups
- Managing Uplinks and Port Groups
- Setting the Port Group VLAN ID
- Managing Uplink Adapters
- Adding and Modifying VMkernel Network Interfaces
- Setting Up vSphere Networking with vSphere Distributed Switch
- Managing Standard Networking Services in the vSphere Environment
- Setting the DNS Configuration
- Adding and Starting an NTP Server
- Managing the IP Gateway
- Setting Up IPsec
- Managing the ESXi Firewall
- Monitoring VXLAN
- Monitoring ESXi Hosts
- Index
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Chapter 9 Managing vSphere Networking
AnSPidentifiesandselectstrafficthatmustbeprotected.AnSPconsistsoftwologicalsections,aselector,
andanaction.
Theselectorisspecifiedbythefollowingoptions.
Theactionisspecifiedbythefollowingoptions
BecauseIPsecallowsyoutotargetpreciselywhichtrafficshouldbeencrypted,it
iswellsuitedforsecuring
yourvSphereenvironment.Forexample,youcansetuptheenvironmentsoallvMotiontrafficisencrypted.
Managing Security Associations
YoucanspecifyanSAandrequestthattheVMkernelusethatSA.ThefollowingoptionsforSAsetupare
supported.
vicfg-ipsec esxcli network ip ipsec
sa-srcandsa-dst --sa-sourceand--sa-destination
spi(securityparameterindex) --sa-spi
sa-mode(tunnelortransport) --sa-mode
ealgoandekey ‐-encryption-algorithmand--encryption-key
ialgoandikey --integrity-algorithmand--integrity-key
vicfg-ipsec esxcli network ip ipsec
src-addrandsrc-port --sa-sourceand--source-port
dst-addranddst-port --destination-port
ulproto --upper-layer-protocol
direction(inorout) --flow-direction
vicfg-ipsec esxcli network ip ipsec
sa-name --sa-name
sp-name --sp-name
action (none, discard, ipsec --action
vicfg-ipsec Option esxcli Option Description
sa-src <source_IP> sa-source
<source_IP>
SourceIPfortheSA.
sa-dst
<destination_IP>
sa-destination
<destination_IP>
DestinationIPfortheSA.
spi sa-spi SecurityParameterIndex(SPI)fortheSA.Mustbeahexadecimal
numberwitha
0xprefix.
WhenIPsecisinuse,ESXiusestheESPprotocol(RFC43030),
whichincludesauthenticationandencryptioninformationand
theSPI.TheSPIidentifiestheSAtouseatthereceivinghost.Each
SAyoucreatemusthaveauniquecombinationofsource,
destination,protocol,andSPI.
sa-mode [tunnel |
transport]
sa-mode [tunnel |
transport]
Either
tunnelortransport.
Intunnelmode,theoriginalpacketisencapsulatedinanother
IPv6packet,wheresourceanddestinationaddressesaretheSA
endpointaddresses.
ealgo [null |
3des-cbc |
aes128-cbc]
encryption-algorith
m [null | 3des-cbc |
aes128-cbc]
Encryptionalgorithmtobeused.Choose3des-cbcor
aes128-cbc,ornullfornoencryption.