A whitelist is an explicit listing of gateways that are allowed for enrollment.
The whitelisting option allows you to control the gateways that are allowed to enroll and the gateways that are not permitted to enroll. A whitelisted gateway is a virtual gateway created on the VMware Pulse IoT Center server. The virtual gateway is registered but not enrolled, and it does not have a physical gateway associated to it until a physical gateway is enrolled using the TPM-based authentication method. After registering a gateway using a device template that has the Requires Whitelisting option enabled, select Whitelist from the Actions drop-down menu to enroll the gateway.