ESXi – Page 2 – Mike Foley

Apr 19

Supported vSphere vCenter and ESXi Ciphers

By mike in ESXi, Security, vSphere

Hi everyone,

One question that comes up regularly is “What ciphers are supported on vCenter and ESXi?”. I’m happy to share that we have published a VMware Knowledge Base article outlining the supported ciphers!

With all of the challenges around SSL/TLS the past year or two, having a solid idea of what ciphers are being used is becoming critical information that is necessary for IT and security teams to do their jobs.

Rather than list the ciphers here, I’ll just point you at the KB as it will be the central repository for this information and will be updated as necessary.

ciphers, esxi, Security, vsphere

Apr 07

Authorized Keys and ESXi 6.0 Update 2 – Changes to OpenSSH

By mike in ESXi, IT Security, Security

William Lam brought up some feedback on Socialcast the other day. The story was of a customer who updated to ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and the SSH keys he was using no longer worked. The customer was advocating for changing the file /etc/sshd_config so that he could continue to use the keys on his ESXi server. IMHO, that’s the wrong course of action.