VMware released hardening guide for vSphere 5. Public draft is available under below link. Anyone is welcome to post comments with findings or proposals.
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-19056
What is the most important, is in XLSX format which will definitely make life easier for admins and for those who want build their own hardening guides based on VMware docs.
Remember, this is Revision version not the final one, for sure few things will change till final version released.
Artur Krzywdzinski
Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).
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