Working with Groups in NSX created with PowerCLI
This Blog will explain Groups in NSX and how groups can be created with VMware PowerCLI.
Category Archives: IT-Security
L7 Firewall – enforce Application Protocol by NSX-T Context Profile / AppID
This post introduces NSX-T L7 capabilities. You will create a MySQL Daemon on an VM and configure NSX-T Distributed Firewall to allow traffic on TCP 3306. When replacing this MySQL Daemon with sshd listening on 3306 NSX-T L4 firewall will not prevent access – by design. After enabling NSX-T L7 Firewall (Context Profile / Application… Read More »
Add or remove Tags in NSX-T with PowerCLI
In this Blogpost I will explain how to add or remove a Tag in NSX-T. If the VM is not tagged before it is very easy to set a new Tag, but if the VM has already been tagged and you don’t want to loose the existing Tags, it becomes more complicated, because the NSX… Read More »
Integrating CentOS 7.5 BareMetal Server with NSX-T 2.5
This post demonstrates how to integrate a bare-metal server on OS-Level into NSX-T overlay networking and security. As there was no bare-metal system in my demo environment available I created a CentOS 7.5 VM on a non-NSX enabled ESXi Server. Topology shown below After successful installation it should look like this Pre-Requisites: Have NSX-T up… Read More »
Creating Objects in NSX-T Policy API with VMware PowerCLI
About VMware PowerCLI VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 700 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere, vCloud, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, NSX-T, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments. If you would like to learn more about VMware… Read More »
Integrating Kubernetes with NSX-T 2.5.1
See how to integrate your NSX-T Environment into Kubernetes