December 2019
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NSX-T Distributed Firewall Threshold Monitoring
Like any other firewall the NSX-T Distributed Firewall (DFW) consumes memory and CPU. Unlike other firewalls the DFW’s resource consumption is distributed, taking place on the transport nodes where the workloads it protects reside. Memory allocation An ESXi transport node… Continue reading
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Locking NSX-T Firewall Policies
After receiving a couple questions about the NSX-T firewall policy locking feature, I decided to write a short blog post about it. The purpose of locking a firewall policy The easy part first. As explained in the official NSX-T documentation… Continue reading
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Tier-1 Failure Domain
With every new release of NSX-T interesting features are added to the platform. Take failure domain for example. Introduced in version 2.5, failure domain adds another layer of protection for the centralized services running on Tier-1 Gateways. It basically facilitates… Continue reading


