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Demo: ESXi host firewall and services

Demo: ESXi host firewall and services - vSphere Tutorial

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Demo: ESXi host firewall and services

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- [Guide] In this video, I'll demonstrate how to configure the host firewall for an ESXI host. And we'll also take a look at how we can enable and disable services. So here I am in my vSphere client. I'm going to click on hosts and clusters. And you can see here I've selected one of my ESXI hosts. And on that ESXI host, I've clicked on the configure tab. And the configure tab is where you can configure just about everything for this host, including like storage adapters and virtual switches and all that good stuff. We are going to be focused on three areas in this lesson. We're going to look at how to configure the ESXI host firewall. We'll also look at services and the security profile. But let's start by taking a look at the firewall configuration. And this firewall is the ESXI host firewall. It's built right into the ESXI host. And the number one most important thing to understand about this firewall is it does not have…

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