June 2019

  • NSX DFW Quick Tip: Tag and Trace

    Anybody working with NSX micro-segmentation knows the importance of monitoring application traffic and the associated distributed firewall rules. Today I just want to share a simple and quick way to increase visibility in the NSX distributed firewall logs. For this… Continue reading

  • Getting Started with the NSX-T API and Postman

    Wether you like it or not, the API plays a significant role when installing, configuring, and managing an NSX-T environment. Sooner or later you will be facing tasks that either require you to use the API or simply are much… Continue reading

  • Add NSX-T Tags To Virtual Machines with PowerShell

    NSX tags on virtual machines often play a fundamental role in a NSX micro-segmentation security framework. Tags are used as the criteria for security group membership which in turn are used as source or destination in distributed firewall policy rules.… Continue reading

  • Setting Up NSX-T Backup

    One of the first things to configure after deploying the NSX Manager nodes is backup. No NSX-T implementation should ever get configured let alone go live without a working backup (and restore) in place. Let’s have a look at how… Continue reading