While continuing to build out my lab for VCAP-DCA today I had to deploy the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant). Upon deployment i tried to SSH to it and unfortunately was not able to. By default SSH is turned off, perform the steps below to enable it.

1. Logon to vMA via a Console Session
2. Run

• ‘sudo vi /etc/hosts.allow’

3. Scroll to the very bottom and type i to insert content into the file.
4. On the last line add 

• ‘sshd: ALL: ALLOW’