Monthly Archives: December 2020

Self-Service user onboarding in vRealize Automation

By | 17. December 2020

vRealize Automation 8/Cloud provides a comprehensive platform to offer service as part of a catalog experience. Users that have been assigned to projects and catalog items can select from the services available and request those accordingly. If new users want to get access to the platform typically an admin user must grant them permissions to… Read More »

Configuring VMware NSX Cloud for consistent On-Premises and AWS Public Cloud Microsegmentation

By | 16. December 2020

This post is intended to show a very basic setup of VMware NSX Cloud to demonstrate the capability to enforce consistent microsegmentation policy for hybrid cloud environments. I will describe the setup of NSX Cloud and the operation of the Native Cloud Enforced Mode which relies on firewall functions delivered natively by AWS (or Azure).… Read More »

Using OpenVPN to connect on-premises Datacenter to AWS VPC

By | 9. December 2020

For a customer demo I needed a quick way to interconnect my on-premises environment with a AWS VPC without getting a AWS direct connect or the possibility to open the on-premises firewall for a NSX IPSEC tunnel. So I made it work with OpenVPN which just needs TCP Port 443 to be allowed on the… Read More »