Nsx

So you’ve just installed NSX Manager and registered vCenter, but when you log in to the vSphere Web Client, you cannot see your NSX Manager. Where did it go? When deploying NSX-v, one of the initial steps involves registering vCenter server with NSX Manager. The section in the NSX 6.1 Installation guide reads as follows: Register vCenter Server with NSX Manager You must login to the NSX Manager virtual appliance to register a vCenter Server and review the settings specified during installation. ...

NSX-v allows the creation of Security Groups to group objects to be used in DFW rules and security policies. Each security group can have a mix of static and dynamic membership (If you want to get picky, you can also statically exclude objects). One of the possible ways to dynamically include members into the security group is to match on a security tag. This allows a VM to have security tags assigned to them, and based on the security tag, a VM can be dynamically added as a security group member. ...

When faced with migrating from a Checkpoint installation to a VMware NSX-v installation, at some point someone is going to need to get all the objects across to the new firewall platform. I was recently asked to help add some functionality to a script to take some data from an odumper csv output and pump it into NSX-v. The following script is a bit of a hack I put together. The script is based off one written by Brett Drayton (www.brettdrayton.com) in this post. ...

When using the NSX-v distributed firewall (DFW) have you ever need to find out if a service has already been configured in the system for a particular port number? Recently I was given a sample ruleset from a client to re-create in the DFW, and one thing that stood out was that when creating NSX firewall rules and faced with a random port number that needed to be configured for a rule, there is no easy way to find out if a service has already been configured using that port. ...