Guide of vSphere 6.0 of hardening - what happened?

Hello

I use the Guides of hardening for a number of years and just opened the 6.0 version of discover significant changes brewing?

The Guide is is no longer divided into tabs depending on the technology Area (ESXi, VM, vCenter, SSO etc.) but they are all in a list. It's ok, but a lot are missing. There is a second document that provides additional parameters but... you pointing to the VMware Documentation. So I don't have a single document to audit my environment against...

What happened and why the approach has changed?

I'm not trying to be cynical and say VMware want to make it more difficult for you, so you buy Configuration Manager, but what makes it much, much harder it must be a tedious job.

Any comments or have I missed something?

Kind regards

Mike

The changes were blog on starting in Feb. I solicited feedback for months. Please read the articles of the blog for the "why".

http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2015/02/vSphere-6-0-Hardening-Guide-overview-coming-changes.html

https://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2015/06/vSphere-6-Hardening-Guide-GA-now-available.html

Mike

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