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
- Log in to the vSphere Client with administrator credentials.
- Select a host from the inventory tree and click the Configure tab.
- Navigate to the 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.
- 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.
- Optional: To install the Carbon Black Cloud Host Module on all hosts in a cluster:
- Select the cluster from the inventory tree and click the Configure tab.
- Navigate to the page, and click Enable Host Module.
- 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.