When working with the Service Composer in NSX-v, by default, when a firewall rule is created in a Security Policy, the firewall rule, when applied, uses the default Applied To value of Distributed Firewall. This means that even though the firewall rule is part of a security policy which is then applied to a specific security group, the rule would be pushed down to every vNIC within the clusters that have been prepared for NSX DFW capabilities and have the firewall enabled. One of the new features introduced in NSX-v 6.2 […]

Whilst working on a vCloud Automation Center integration with NSX-v this evening, I noticed a strange error which had appeared in the logs in regards to the data collection for Network and Security Inventory. The Network and Security Inventory data collection was displaying the time the data collection last completed, […]