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Demo: Configure vDS security policies

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Demo: Configure vDS security policies

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- In this video, I'll demonstrate how to configure the security settings on a port group on a vSphere Distributor Switch in vSphere 6.7. And again, I'm using the Hands On Labs at hol.vmware.com. So, here's a port group that I've already created. I'm just going to right click it. Go to Edit Settings. And under Edit Settings, I'm going to go to Security. And I have three options here. Number one. Promiscuous mode which I can see is currently set to reject. So, what promiscuous mode is going to allow me to do is to sniff traffic on this network. So, when I enable promiscuous mode on a port group, I can connect a virtual machine to that port group and it can detect all of the frames that are being passed on that port group. So, for example, something like a sniffer or something like an intrusion prevention system could be a good candidate for promiscuous mode because it needs the ability to monitor all of the traffic on that…

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