PCI and HIPAA compliance
Both PCI and HIPAA compliance policies do not come out of the box with vRealize Operations. Both of them come in the form of management packs. The installation and configuration for both packs is the same. In this example, we will be installing and configuring the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for HIPAA.
The pack will provide alerts, policies, and reports to validate the vSphere environment against the HIPAA hardening guide.
Enabling the HIPAA compliance pack
Perform the following steps to install the vRealize Operations Compliance Pack for HIPAA:
- Navigate to the VMware Marketplace at https://marketplace.vmware.com and download the HIPAA management pack. In vRealize Operations, navigate to
Administration
,Solutions
, and click the plus (+) sign. - Select the management pack, click
Upload
, and after the upload has completed, clickNext
. Read and accept the EULA. Wait until the solution has been installed on all vRealize Operations nodes. - Now, we have to edit a policy...