When working with a customer recently, there was a question raised about how to calculate the actual number of NSX-v distributed firewall rules configured for a given VM on the dataplane of an ESXi host. Whilst the short answer was to jump onto the console of the hypervisor or SSH […]
If you’ve heard me speak at VMworld on NSX Distributed Firewall best practises, you would have heard me speak about the importance of using the Applied To option when configuring DFW rules. One of the metrics using the Applied To option influences is the total number of rules configured per […]
One of the things that makes NSX-T such a flexible platform when it comes to creating security policy is the ability to group membership defined by dynamic criteria, or based on objects such as a logical segment. Once a group has been defined in NSX-T based on dynamic criteria, its […]
Over the past few years of working with NSX vSphere, one of the more frustrating things that would happen is that you would try to delete an object of some description (IP Set, Security Group, Service etc) and you would get the annoying message in the UI which says the […]
