Monitor and enforce network traffic within your virtual datacenter to meet corporate security policies and ensure regulatory compliance. VMware vShield Zones enables you to run your applications efficiently within a shared computing resource pool, while still maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data.
- Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
- Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
- Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers with our green IT solutions
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Features
The following is a list of the key features of VMware vShield Zones. For a comprehensive list of VMware vSphere features download the key features summary.
Central Management of Logical Zone Boundaries and Segmentation
- Leverage existing virtual infrastructure containers – hosts, virtual switches, VLANs – as logical trust or organizational zones
- Define policies to bridge, firewall, or isolate network traffic between zone boundaries
- Manage and deploy policies across entire VMware vCenter Server deployment
- Integrate with VMware vCenter Server and automatically deploy on existing virtual networks
- Scan and discover existing applications running on virtual machines to identify application protocols
Network Enforcement and Flow Monitoring
- Classify traffic by network or application protocol (e.g. HTTP, RDP, SNMP)
- Performantly filter traffic with stateful packet inspection (SPI)
- Track dynamic port connections for protocols such as FTP
- Track network connections across VMware VMotion migration events.
- Easily convert observed network flows into precise network enforcement rules.
- Monitor both allowed and disallowed activity
Management and Reporting
- Access the Web-based vShield Manager interface remotely from any Web browser
- Configure administrators to be common with VMware vCenter Server or distinct for separation of duties and roles
- View activity hierarchically at individual virtual machine or aggregate levels and generate graphical or tabular reports
- Retain log data for archival and compliance purposes
- Export events and data using syslog format
