Details

The vSAN Health Check is used for additional alerting capabilities, performance stress testing prior to production usage, and verifying that the underlying hardware officially is supported by being in compliance with the vSAN Hardware Compatibility Guide

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

From the vSphere Web Client go to Host and Clusters >> Select a vSAN Enabled Cluster >> Manage >> Configure >> Virtual SAN >> Health and Performance >> ‘Health Service’ and click ‘Edit Settings’. Select the check box for ‘Turn On Periodical Health Check’ and configure the time interval as necessary.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-5_Y21M10_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system VMware.

References

• 800-53|CM-6b.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000366
• Rule-ID|SV-216872r612237_rule
• STIG-ID|VCWN-65-000053
• STIG-Legacy|SV-104639
• STIG-Legacy|V-94809
• Vuln-ID|V-216872

Source

• Tenable.com/audits