In the hardening guide there is the following setting for VMs:
disable-disk-shrinking-wiper
The hardening guide says the following about this setting in its coluns:
"Is desired value the default value": NO
"Desired Value" : True
"Change Type" : Add
So in other words, out the box, there is no entry at all for this in the vmx file.
The hardening guide recommends that I create a newentry in the vmx file called
isolation.tools.diskWiper.disable=true
By default when new VMs are created, there is no entry at all in the vmx file for isolation.tools.diskWiper.disable - either true or false. When there is no entry at all, does the system behave as though the setting is true, or although the setting were false?
(I'm using the 5.5 version of the hardening guide on ESXi 5.5)