Checking VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Security Standards

vGate Compliance Checker is a free Security Code development tool that allows you to verify that virtual infrastructures comply with industry standards and international best practices.

The result of the application is a report (which can be downloaded in HTML format) containing information on the compliance of the server being checked (several servers) with industry standards and international best practices.

It can be a useful tool not only for information security specialists.


It works under Windows and, since the utility does not require installation on the HDD, it can be launched from a flash drive. There are two versions of the software product:

1. To check VMware vSphere 4.1 and VMware vSphere 5

A compliance check is performed:

• PCI DSS 2.0
• VMware Security Hardening Best Practices 4.1
• CIS VMware ESX Server Benchmarks 4

download from here (rus) or from here (eng)

2. To check VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware vSphere 4

Compliance checks are performed:

• PCI DSS 1.2
• VMware Security Hardening Best Practices 4
• CIS VMware ESX Server Benchmarks 3.5

download from here (eng)

Intuitive algorithm for working with the utility:
- run the desired version of the EXE file
- specify the server to check, login and password (repeat if there are several servers)



- run the scan The

report displayed in the utility allows you to see which items meet or do not meet the requirements and recommendations: the



HTML report also contains detailed information for each check item: The



utility does not have any documentation or a built-in help.
But they, it seems, are not needed.