VM: vm-8.deactivate-disk-shrinking-wiper

Information

Virtual machines must have virtual disk wiping operations deactivated. Disabling virtual disk wiping on virtual machines helps avoid disk unavailability issues. The ability to perform this operation is typically limited for non-administrative users in the guest environment.

Solution

Get-VM -Name $VM | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name isolation.tools.diskWiper.disable | Remove-AdvancedSetting

See Also

https://github.com/vmware/vcf-security-and-compliance-guidelines/raw/refs/heads/main/security-configuration-hardening-guide/vsphere/8.0/