Preface

VMware is the pioneer and leader in SDDC with its various tools; VCM is responsible for policy-driven compliance management and the patching of infrastructure.

VCM helps in maintaining the compliance of infrastructure by automatically collecting data and analyzing it against industry standards such as VMware and Microsoft Hardening Guidelines, CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS, and FISMA, to name a few. It helps you patch your machines with the latest patches released by OS vendors and automate software provisioning. You can see your compliance score on the vROps console after integrating both of them.

This book provides recipes for installing VCM and then the initial configuration, moving ahead with integration to another VMware tool. After this, it continues with configuring compliance and patching for Linux and Windows machines. We have a chapter that will help you configure VCM in order to deploy software from VCM.

You can use this book as a guide to completely explore all the features of VCM, and in the troubleshooting section, you can take a look at the issues you might face while working on VCM every day.