Category Archives: News

VMware adds container runtime protection to…

By | 3. March 2022

Very exiting news, another important addition on the road to perfect VMware adds container runtime protection to… InfoWorld reports on the news that VMware has added new container runtime security capabilities to its Carbon Black Cloud platform. The new features will help customers better secure modern applications at scale. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Why CloudHealth Secure State won Gold for…

By | 3. March 2022

Why CloudHealth Secure State won Gold for… Managing misconfiguration risk to prevent data breaches and improve cloud security posture is a key priority for IT and developer teams. But finding a solution that’s easy to operationalize can be very challenging. Recently, VMware announced that CloudHealth Secure State won gold for cloud […]

NSX-T – NCP Integration with Openshift 4.8 – The Super-Easy Way

By | 6. December 2021

Introduction If you have been following the blog posts on this site, we implemented NSX-T with Openshift 4.6 with NCP’s support for Openshift operators (see https://www.vrealize.it/2021/03/24/nsx-t-ncp-integration-with-openshift-4-6-the-easy-way/) using the UPI installation. In the meantime, NCP 3.2 was released, which supports Openshift 4.7 and 4.8 and is also able to get installed through the IPI installation process.… Read More »

Use idsreplay Appliance to easily demo NSX IDS/IPS

By | 24. August 2021

Often customers want to see the ease of use of VMware NSX distributed IDS/IPS. But to demonstrate its capabilities it might be necessary to setup tools like metaspoit and vulnerable software versions. With idsreplay I’ve created an easy way to run you IDS/IPS Demo “out-of-the-box” without the need to setup & configure potentially dangerous software… Read More »

NSX-T – NCP Integration with Openshift 4.6 – The Easy Way

By | 24. March 2021

Introduction If you have been following the blog posts on this site, we implemented NSX-T with Openshift 4.4 with NCP’s support for Openshift operators (see https://www.vrealize.it/2020/09/29/nsx-t-ncp-integration-with-openshift-4-4-the-easy-way). In the meantime, NCP 3.1.1 was released, which supports Openshift 4.6. Since 4.6 involves a new ignition format version, I took that opportunity to refresh this blog, to add… Read More »

NSX-T – NCP Integration with Openshift 4.4 – The Easy Way

By | 29. September 2020

Introduction In my previous post, we implemented NSX-T with Openshift 4 based without NCP’s support for Openshift operators (see https://www.vrealize.it/2020/07/15/nsx-t-ncp-integration-with-openshift-4-3-the-hard-way/). In the meantime, NCP 3.0.2 was released, which is implemented using an Openshift operator. The operator is also published on the Redhat Openshift Operator Hub (https://catalog.redhat.com/software/operators/detail/5ef0f362701a9cb8c147cf4b). That makes the installation way more simple, as you… Read More »

NSX-T – NCP Integration with Openshift 4.3 – The Hard Way

By | 15. July 2020

Introduction Today, we’ll take a look at how to implement NSX-T’s container integration with Redhat Openshift 4.3.Before we begin, let me quickly explain why this blog post is called “The Hard Way”. Today with NSX-T 3.0 and NCP 3.0.1, support for Redhat Openshift can be provided by configuring the corresponding network config files during Openshift’s… Read More »

NSX-T 3.0 available – a decade of innovation

By | 8. April 2020

Yesterday the eighth release of NSX-T went GA. Yes, you can hear and marvel, besides the expiring, NSX for vSphere (early 2022) this is already the eighth public release of NSX-T.  In addition to on-premise multi-hypervisor support, it allows a uniform security policy to be implemented in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, no matter whether the… Read More »