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V-256361

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter Server must disable or restrict the connectivity between vSAN Health Check and public Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) by use of an external proxy server.

Rule ID

SV-256361r885694_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R3

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

The vSAN Health Check is able to download the HCL from VMware to check compliance against the underlying vSAN Cluster hosts. To ensure the vCenter server is not directly downloading content from the internet, this functionality must be disabled. If this feature is necessary, an external proxy server must be configured.

Check Content

If no clusters are enabled for vSAN, this is not applicable.

From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters.

Select the vCenter Server >> Configure >> vSAN >> Internet Connectivity.

If the HCL internet download is not required, verify "Status" is "Disabled". 

If the "Status" is "Enabled", this is a finding.

If the HCL internet download is required, verify "Status" is "Enabled" and a proxy host is configured. 

If "Status" is "Enabled" and a proxy is not configured, this is a finding.

Fix Text

From the vSphere Client, go to Host and Clusters.

Select the vCenter Server >> Configure >> vSAN >> Internet Connectivity.

Click "Edit".

If the HCL internet download is not required, ensure "Status" is "Disabled".

If the HCL internet download is required, ensure "Status" is "Enabled" and a proxy host is appropriately configured.