Thinking of Hardening your VMware Environment - check this out.

Today's technological advancement has given the users access to the information very easily. With proper set of rights and permissions are not available as Standards as the design and implementation varies from company to company.

To harden your vSphere Environment you need to either develop your own custom tool to monitor and impose your security standards or you can go with some existing tools developed by experts which are listed here.

Security

By William Lam @lamw

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/04/vsphere-security-hardening-report.html


Script is available here.


http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11901

By Alan Renouf @alanrenouf

http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/

Security Public Drafts available for vSphere 5.0

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19056

If you want the difference between ESX/ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19057

Looking for information on vSphere 4.0

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10109

And if you still running ESX/ESXi 3.0 

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/726

and

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/727

Finally for vCloud Director 1.x

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10138