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verify
Forces certificate verification. The virtual machine will verify that the peer
certificate subject matches the specified peerName and that it was signed
by a certificate authority known to the ESXi host. Verification is enabled if
you specify a thumbprint or peerName
cipherList=value
Specifies a list of SSL ciphers. The ciphers are specified as a list separated
by colons, spaces, or commas.
Example: Establishing Serial Port Network Connections to a Client or Server
Simple Server
Connection
To connect to a virtual machine's serial port from a Linux or Windows
operating system if you do not use vSPC, configure the virtual machine with
a serial port connected as a server with a telnet://:12345 URI. To
access a virtual serial port from a client, use telnet
yourESXiServerIPAddress 12345.
Secure Server
Connection
To enforce an encrypted connection to the virtual machine's serial port from
a Linux operating system, you can configure Telnet to enforce encryption by
configuring the virtual machine with a serial port connected as a server with
a telnet://:12345#verify URI.
To access a virtual serial port from a client, use telnet-ssl
yourESXServerName 12345. This connection will fail if the Telnet program
you are using does not support SSL encryption.
Simple Client
Connection
If you are running a Telnet server on your system and you want the virtual
machine to automatically connect to it, you can configure the virtual
machine as a client using telnet://yourLinuxBox:23.
The Virtual machine keeps initiating the Telnet connection to port 23 on
yourLinuxBox.
Secure Client
Connection
Additional URI options allow you to enforce a specific server certificate and
restrict the ciphers being used. Virtual machines with a serial port
configured as a client with telnet://ipOfYourLinuxBox:
23#cipherList=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-
SHA&peerName=myLinuxBoxName.withDomain will connect to
ipOfYourLinuxBox only if the system supports one of two listed ciphers, and
if it presents a trusted certificate issued to myLinuxBoxName.withDomain.
Replace .withDomain with the full domain name, for example,
example.org.
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