Carbon Black Cloud Host Module runs on the ESXi as a host user world process and provides unique identity information to the VMs. To save time from manual installation and configuration of a host user world on every host in your vCenter Server , you can use an automatic installation and configuration workflow.

You can install the host user world on a single host or on many hosts in a cluster.

Prerequisites

  • Host with ESXi 6.7 or later.
  • vCenter Server 6.7 or later.
  • Carbon Black Cloud Workload Appliance 1.1 or later.
  • The host must be powered on and connected to the vCenter Server.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Client with administrator credentials.
  2. Select a host from the inventory tree and click the Configure tab.
  3. Navigate to the Carbon Black > Security page and click Enable Host Module.
    This action takes up to 5 minutes.
    After the installation completes, the status changes from Installable to Up to date. You can see the host user world version and its general status as connected.
  4. To upgrade the host user world to its latest version, click Upgrade Host Module.
    After the upgrade completes, the status changes from Upgradable to Up to date.
  5. Optional: To install the Carbon Black Cloud Host Module on all hosts in a cluster:
    1. Select the cluster from the inventory tree and click the Configure tab.
    2. Navigate to the Carbon Black > Security page, and click Enable Host Module.
    3. Select Confirm in the Carbon Black Cloud popup window.

What to do next

Install Carbon Black Cloud sensors on Linux or Windows VMs in a vCenter Server environment to enable the automatic identification and registration of VDI clones.