Author Archives: Daniel Paul

L7 Firewall – enforce Application Protocol by NSX-T Context Profile / AppID

By | 27. January 2020
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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 »

Integrating CentOS 7.5 BareMetal Server with NSX-T 2.5

By | 20. December 2019
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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 »