The VMs are communicating on an isolated subnet in Workstation to keep the TCP/IP traffic relevant. To demonstrate I’ve created a virtual machine (VM) and an instance of the 3PAR simulator in VMware Workstation. Let’s open up Wireshark and see what a packet capture reveals. Here we have a screenshot of the logon prompt, as you can see ‘Secure Connection’ option is selected. This post is specific to the traditional IMC client which is being deprecated in favour of the SSMC web client however I won’t be covering alternative clients (SSH, web, OneView etc) in this post as they aren’t relevant to the point I’m making. In this post I will demonstrate why you should not connect without this option selected. If you have used the HPE 3PAR management console (IMC) you will know that the logon prompt has a tick box for ‘Secure Connection’.
