2V0-621 · Question #20
Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. isolation.tools.unity.push.update.disable B. isolation.tools.ghi.launchmenu.change. VMs hosted exclusively on vSphere should have VMware Workstation/Fusion-specific Guest Host Integration and Unity features disabled, as these features serve no purpose in vSphere and unnecessarily expand the attack surface.
Question
Which two advanced features should be disabled for virtual machines that are only hosted on a vSphere system? (Choose two.)
Options
- Aisolation.tools.unity.push.update.disable
- Bisolation.tools.ghi.launchmenu.change
- Cisolation.tools.bbs.disable
- Disolation.tools.hgfsServerSet.enable
How the community answered
(52 responses)- A81% (42)
- C8% (4)
- D12% (6)
Why each option
VMs hosted exclusively on vSphere should have VMware Workstation/Fusion-specific Guest Host Integration and Unity features disabled, as these features serve no purpose in vSphere and unnecessarily expand the attack surface.
The isolation.tools.unity.push.update.disable parameter controls the Unity Push Update capability, a VMware Workstation/Fusion feature for seamless windowed application display that has no functional role in vSphere - disabling it removes an unnecessary guest-to-host communication channel per the VMware Security Hardening Guide.
The isolation.tools.ghi.launchmenu.change parameter governs Guest Host Integration (GHI) launch menu modification, another desktop hypervisor feature irrelevant to vSphere-hosted VMs - disabling it prevents the guest from altering host UI elements through an attack vector that provides no legitimate value in a vSphere-only environment.
isolation.tools.bbs.disable is not among the parameters explicitly recommended for disabling in the VMware vSphere Security Hardening Guide for VMs running only in a vSphere environment, making it an incorrect choice in this context.
isolation.tools.hgfsServerSet.enable relates to the Host-Guest File System used by VMware Tools for legitimate file transfer and operational tasks within vSphere environments, so disabling it is not a recommended security hardening step for standard vSphere-hosted VMs.
Concept tested: VM isolation advanced parameter hardening for vSphere
Source: https://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html
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