Monthly Archives: January 2020
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 »
vRealize Automation 8 API, CLI, Terraform provider, Kubernetes – How developers can benefit from the platform
Now that the next generation of vRealize Automation has been released I would like to have a closer look on the new use cases being addressed. Most of you probably know that vRealize Automation can be consumed in two flavors in this new model: vRealize Automation Cloud – consumed as Software-as-a-Service vRealize Automation 8.x –… Read More »
vRealize Network Insight 5.1.0 released last week
I am always stunned about the pace of innovation the Network Insight team pushes updates of their baby to the market. For me outstanding in 5.1 is the increases in queries for NSX-T from 18 to roughly 38, and the improvements in Velocloud as well as container Integration for Kubernetes. A clear emphasis for the… Read More »