Shield Endpoint with v. Sphere 6. 0. Ive heard some questions regarding v. Shield Endpoint being supported with v. Sphere 6. 0.   Some of the confusion has come from various announcements of End of Availability and End of Support for v. Cloud Networking and Security. Before I answer the question of using v. Shield Endpoint with v. Sphere 6. 0, lets first look at the history of the v. Shield product line to see where the confusion may come from. There has been many changes due to the rapid pace of innovation and developments in virtual networking and security May 2. Shield Zones 1. 0 released, providing an application aware firewall built for VMware v. Center Server integration. Sphere 4. 0 is the current version of v. Sphere.   v. Sphere Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions are entitled to v. Shield Zones. August 2. VMware v. Shield 4. Sphere 4. 1.   v. Shield Edge, App and Endpoint are introduced and packaged with v. Shield Zones. All v. Shield components are managed by v. Shield Manager. v. Shield Suite is available as add on licenses. Shield Zones remains a part of v. Sphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus licensing. July 2. 01. 1 v. Shield Data Security is announced. September 2. 01. 1 VMware v. Shield 5. 0 is released, along with v. Sphere 5. 0.   v. Shield 5. Shield Data Security capabilities. If you were running ESX 4. Shield Zones 4. 1, and wanted to upgrade to ESXi 5. Shield Manager 4. Zones 4. 1, upgrade to ESXi 5. Shield Manager 1. INTL-L-Trend-Micro-AntiVirus-Security-QK4-00014-mnco.jpg' alt='Vshield Antivirus Symantec' title='Vshield Antivirus Symantec' />Bitdefender GravityZone combines all the security services enterprises need to reduce their cost of building a trusted environment for all endpoints. McAfee solutions deliver complete virus protection and internet security. Download McAfee antivirus and antispyware software to protect against the latest online. Zones 1. 0 that were released with v. Sphere 5. 0.   Yes, this is confusing at best. Shield Endpoint is made available as part of the VMware View 4 Premier Edition bundle. August 2. 01. 2 v. Shield Zones 4. 1 reaches End of Availability EOA and End of General Support EOS. However, v. Shield Zones 1. Sphere 5. 0 remains available for download through v. Sphere 5. 1.   The v. Shield Zones virtual firewall provided very basic segmentation and traffic filtering capabilities using the VMsafe API, which is deprecated thus further investment for feature development or support can not be justified. VMware plans to continue to invest in v. Cloud Networking and Security, which covers the majority of use cases for v. Shield Zones. July 2. VMware acquires Nicira for 1. Billion.   VMware NSX will eventually come from this acquisition. August 2. 01. 2 v. Farpoint Spread 7.0 Serial. Shield Endpoint is now included in every v. Sphere Edition except v. Sphere Essentials. The licensing change makes v. Shield Endpoint available for all customers, with an active Sn. S, running v. Sphere 5. Sphere 5. 0. x, or v. Sphere 4. 1 U3 August 2. Sphere 5. 1 and v. Cloud Networking and Security v. CNS 5. 1 are announced. CNS includes v. Shield Edge, App and Endpoint. CNS is available as an add on license to v. Sphere, and is included with v. Cloud Director.   With the general availability of VMware v. Cloud Networking and Security 5. September 2. 01. 2, VMware announced an end of availability date of October 1. Shield family of products i. Shield Edge, v. Shield App, v. Shield Data Security and v. Shield Endpoint. VMware will continue to support maintenance releases for the v. Shield products until September 1, 2. Cloud Networking and Security is sold in two editions. Standard Edition provides the following features firewall, VPN, VXLAN, v. Cloud Ecosystem framework, Network Address Translation, and Dynamic Host Control Protocol. Advanced Edition Provides all the features of Standard Edition plus high availability, load balancing, and data security. August 2. 01. 2 v. Cloud Suite 5. 1 is announced. This first iteration of the v. Cloud Suite bundled v. Sphere, v. Cloud Director, v. Cloud Connector, v. Fabric Application Director, v. Cloud Networking and Security 5. Watch 2017 Movie Online Kong: Skull Island there. Center Operations Management Suite, v. Center Site Recovery Manager and v. Cloud Automation Center. VMware offered a 1 upgrade from v. Sphere Enterprise Plus to v. Cloud Suite Standard customers who took advantage of this deal are now licensed for v. Cloud Networking and Security through the v. Cloud Suite. With v. Cloud Suite, VMware is now selling v. Cloud Networking and Security with two licensing options bundled with the v. Cloud Suites and licensed per processor or sold stand alone, and licensed per VM. September 2. 01. 3 v. Cloud Suite 5. 5 is released. Cloud Suite 5. 5 includes v. Cloud Networking and Security 5. Cloud Networking and Security 5. VMware v. Cloud Suite 5. At the same time, VMware announced the End of Availability EOA of the VMware v. Cloud Networking and Security 5. Standard and Advanced editions for sale as standalone products effective September 3. September 2. 01. 3 VMware announces general availability of VMware NSX. NSX is a stand alone product with some functionality that overlaps v. CNS. March 2. 01. Sphere 6. 0 and v. Cloud Suite 6. 0 are announced. Cloud Networking and Security is removed from the v. Cloud Suite bundle this means that v. CNS has reached End of Availability because it was only available through the v. Cloud Suite bundle. However, v. CNS 5. September 2. 01. 6 for customers who were already licensed. NSX is not included in the v. Cloud Suite.   v. Cloud Suite customers who are ready to take advantage of advanced software defined networking and security services have the option to purchase NSX for v. Sphere at a reduced add on price. NSX provides layer 2 to layer 7 network virtualization, with security policies that follow workloads across the data center for faster network provisioning and management. And that brings us to today At first glance, it would appear that all v. Shield and v. Cloud Networking and Security products are end of availability and not available for use with v. Sphere 6. 0.   v. Shield Manager, a component of v. CNS, is needed to deploy and mange the v. Shield Endpoint agent on ESXi hosts, so customers began to question whether v. Shield Endpoint was licensed and compatible with v. Sphere 6. 0 and I suspect some of our security partners also began to wonder. So whats the deal Shield Endpoint is supported with v. Sphere 6. 0, and licensing is included in v. Sphere editions Essentials Plus and above Cloud Networking and Security was updated to version 5. Sphere 6. 0.   This VMware KB sheds a little light on this Implementation of VMware v. Shield Endpoint beyond v. Cloud Networking and Security End of Availability EOA 2. Be sure to check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes to verify you have the supported version of v. CNS for your version of v. Sphere v. Center AND ESXi. So how do you use v. Shield Endpoint with v. Sphere 6. 0  v. Shield Endpoint requires v. CNS  specifically, v. Shield Managerv. Cloud Networking and Security Manager for configuration and management. Any entitled customers will be able to download v. CNS to obtain v. Cloud Networking and Security Manager. Sounds good, except that until very recently v. Cloud Networking and Security was not included in the v. Sphere 6. 0 downloads and it is still not listed under v. Sphere with Operations Management 6. Cloud Suite 6. 0 downloads sections on http my. If you dont see v. Cloud Networking and Security in your product downloads on http my. Shield 5. 5. 4.   Note that as of today, the latest version is 5. So what happens after v. Sphere 6. 0  As far as I know, v. Cloud Networking and Security will not be available features in NSX will replace v. CNSv. Shield features. NSX supports Guest Introspection.