nsx
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NSX 4.1.2 – IDS/IPS Packet Capture
A nice new feature that shipped with NSX 4.1.2 is the ability to download packet capture files (PCAPs) containing packets that were detected or prevented by NSX IDS/IPS. This enables teams to store and investigate network data related to intrusion… Continue reading
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Configuring DPU-Based Acceleration for NSX
Offloading the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) to a Data Processing Unit (DPU) is an exciting new feature which is GA as of NSX version 4.1. Other NSX features that were already supported within DPU-based acceleration for NSX are: For NSX… Continue reading
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NSX Application Platform – Installation Notes
A while back I needed to deploy the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) in my lab environment to demonstrate features like NSX Intelligence and the ones within NSX Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP). In my experience, deploying NAPP can be more or… Continue reading
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BGP EVPN Between NSX And VyOS – Part 2
Welcome back! In Part 1 we configured and prepared NSX to participate in a BGP EVPN control and data plane. In this part we continue with configuration of the VyOS router. Once both NSX and VyOS are configured we’ll verify… Continue reading
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BGP EVPN Between NSX And VyOS – Part 1
Recently I’ve been looking into setting up BGP EVPN between VMware NSX and VyOS router. I’m using VyOS quite a lot in labs and demos, often as the counterpart to a Tier-0 gateway, and wanted to find out if it… Continue reading
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NSX Distributed Firewall – How To Get Started?
One of the great benefits of the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) is the flexibility it offers when it comes to developing security policy models. Implementation of the application intrinsic NSX DFW always begins with looking at the business needs and… Continue reading
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SDDC.Lab v5 Released
Finishing touches and testing is completed. We’re proud to announce that we’ve just released SDDC.Lab Version 5! For those of you that are not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployments… Continue reading
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Log Insight – Integration With Jenkins
During some research I did for a customer on how to trigger an action based on an error event in the SDDC, I built myself a lab and ended up with a concept that seems interesting enough to write some… Continue reading
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SDDC.Lab v2
Back in April I published a post about my GitHub repository containing Ansible scripts that perform automated deployment of nested vSphere/NSX-T lab environments. A lot has happened during the last 5 months and now that we’re close to making version… Continue reading