Quinton Coelho

VMware NSX Network Detection & Response 3.2 Deployment

In my previous post I covered the deployment and enabling of NSX Intelligence on our NSX Application Platform. So the next would be enabling the integrated NSX Network Detection & Response (NDR) feature. I say integrated here because VMware offers NDR as a full stand alone deployment option which is based on the Lastline acquisition.Continue reading “VMware NSX Network Detection & Response 3.2 Deployment”

VMware NSX Intelligence 3.2 Deployment

This post focuses on NSX Intelligence 3.2 when deployed on the NSX Application Platform in NSX-T 3.2. It does not cover migrating from previous versions of NSX Intelligence 1.X to 3.2 but instead looks at a greenfield installation. NSX-T 3.2 introduced us to the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and this replaces the need to deployContinue reading “VMware NSX Intelligence 3.2 Deployment”

VMware NSX Application Platform Deployment

This post is intended for administrators who must deploy or manage the NSX Application Platform and activate the NSX applications that are hosted on the platform. This post will cover the deployment and activation starting from the NSX-T UI and it assumes the needed Kubernetes platform has already been prepared (Controller and Worker Nodes already created toContinue reading “VMware NSX Application Platform Deployment”

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0.x

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0 | 16 December 2021 | Build 19067070 ***VMware removed 3.2.0 around a week or two after the release and recommend users upgrade to 3.2.0.1 instead*** What’s New NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0 is a major release offering many new features in all the verticals of NSX-T: networking, security, services and onboarding. HereContinue reading “VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0.x”

VMware NSX Security

It has been a while since I last posted something here and so many new features have been added to VMware NSX since the 3.2 release in December 2021. With a major focus on Security in this release I thought it would make sense to create a few blog posts which would help others gettingContinue reading “VMware NSX Security”

vRealize Network Insight 6.1

vRealize Network Insight 6.1 | 14 Jan 2021| Build 1610450081 vRealize Network Insight helps you build an optimized, highly available and secure network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides network visibility and analytics to accelerate micro-segmentation security, minimize risk during application migration, optimize network performance and confidently manage and scale NSX, SD-WAN Velocloud, and Kubernetes deployments. What’sContinue reading “vRealize Network Insight 6.1”

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1 | 27 January 2021 | Build 17483185 What’s New NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1 provides a variety of new features to offer new functionalities for virtualized networking and security for private, public, and multi-clouds. Highlights include new features and enhancements in the following focus areas. My Highlights The introduction of OSPFv2 asContinue reading “VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1”

VMware HCX 4.0

VMware HCX 4.0.0 | 23 FEB 2021 | Build 17667890 (Connector), Build 17667891 (Cloud) What is VMware HCX VMware HCX delivers secure and seamless app mobility and infrastructure hybridity across vSphere 6.0 and later versions, both on-premises and in the cloud. HCX abstracts the distinct private or public vSphere resources and presents a Service Mesh as an end-to-end entity. TheContinue reading “VMware HCX 4.0”

NSX-T Time-Based Firewall Policy

VMware NSX-T Distributed Firewall (DFW) offers L2 to L7 stateful firewall capabilities, in my previous blog I covered the capability to create policies matching FQDN/URLs. This blog will further expand on the NSX-T DFW capabilities and focus on time-based firewall policies. With time-Based firewall policies, security administrators can restrict traffic from a source to aContinue reading “NSX-T Time-Based Firewall Policy”

NSX-T Filtering Specific Domains (FQDN/URLs)

VMware NSX-T Distributed Firewall (DFW) offers L2 to L7 stateful firewall capabilities. Most NSX-T operators are fairly comfortable creating L4 policies in the quest to achieve the “zero-trust” model. In this blog I wanted to take this one step further and explore the capabilities of using the DFW to enforce policy matching L7 FQDN/URLs. IContinue reading “NSX-T Filtering Specific Domains (FQDN/URLs)”