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
Consumption by Catalog A developer can use the graphical interface to model his service or simple use a yaml file and directly start the provisioning. Examples of YAML files can be provided by the IT department and e.g. stored on a github repository to give users access to them. Cloud Assembly syncs content from a… 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 »