Categorie: NSX

NSX

Full explanation of NSX-T Federation (and that rhymes)

With the General Availability of VMware NSX-T version 3.0, one of the most anticipated features is released: “Federation”. NSX-T Federation enables customers to stretch their NSX-T deployments over multiple site and/or towards the public cloud, but still keeping one Single Pane of Management. With NSX for vSphere (NSX-v) this feature was also available and was called the Cross-vCenter deployment, which enabled you to could create … Lees verder Full explanation of NSX-T Federation (and that rhymes)

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NSX, Scripting, VMware, VMware vRealize Log Insight

Using PowerShell to enumerate Log Insight events

When using the VMware NSX Distributed firewall, it’s common to use vRealize Log Insight for firewall rule analyses but there is a little problem with it, which I will try to explain and resolve. The great thing about the VMware NSX Distributed Firewall is that you can assign vSphere objects directly to the firewall rules. VMware NSX takes care of the translation of these objects … Lees verder Using PowerShell to enumerate Log Insight events

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NSX, Scripting, Security

PowerNSX: missing NSX Firewall rule functionality

PowerNSX (for vSphere) is a great tool for SDN automation. I use it on a daily basis and helps me and my customers a lot! But with every good product, there is always room for improvement! One of my customers asked me to add descriptions to existing IpSet object, add services to existing DFW firewall rules and retrieve the DFW firewall rule stats.Unfortunately these functionalities … Lees verder PowerNSX: missing NSX Firewall rule functionality

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NSX, Security, vRealize Network Insight

Usefull vRNI queries to enable micro segmentation

This blog is related to earlier blogs: https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/designing-a-nsx-security-framework/https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/next-gen-network-security-topologies/https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/nsx-security-vs-workability/ Introduction This blog may help you implement micro-segmentation by providing helpful vRNI queries. You can use these queries to identify VMs which should be placed into the different segments. You can read here what vRealize Network Insight is and how it works. This blog will help you using vRNI by identifying application-entities or security groups which can … Lees verder Usefull vRNI queries to enable micro segmentation

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NSX, VMware

ITQ Transform ’19 – it was awesome

Yesterday on the 27th of september in Fort Voordorp in Groenekan (Netherlands) ITQ held their Transform event. For those who could not attend this event, here is a little re-cap: In the morning (before the Transform event really kicked of) ITQ held a unique VMware Cloud on AWS Master Class course: A 3 hour in-depth course were all aspects of VMConAWS were covered.ITQ invited the … Lees verder ITQ Transform ’19 – it was awesome

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NSX, Security

NSX-v: understanding and overcoming DFW firewall rule maximums

In this blog I’m going into the deep down holes of the DFW firewall rule maximums of VMware NSX for vSphere. As the stated maximum on the configmax-website are soft-limits and not hard-limits. Let discuss what the hard limit of the amount of DFW rules is. Let’s start by talking about the Distributed Firewall (DFW). The Distributed Firewall The DFW is a firewall which operates … Lees verder NSX-v: understanding and overcoming DFW firewall rule maximums

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