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Lots of hosting companies use vcenter for managing their VMs, and if you expose vcenter to your customers, you have a very convenient way to have the powercycle
by perlgeek 5y ago
Lots of hosting companies use vcenter for managing their VMs, and if you expose vcenter to your customers, you have a very convenient way to have the powercycle VMs, open consoles and stuff like that.
And if you expose it to your customers, you either have to force them to use a VPN (and support it for even their dumbest users), or you expose it on the Internet.
Not great security wise, but the economics do push you into that direction.
- fulafel 5y agoAlso, if you look at the vulnerability track record of commercial VPN products recently (some mentioned in this article even), they aren't necessarily any safer to keep publically accessible.