a vSphere and NSX-T network port diagramm...
vSphere/NSX-T – Network Port Diagram
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Full explanation of NSX-T Federation (and that rhymes)
With the General Availability of VMware NSX-T version 3.0, one of the most anticipated features is released: “Federation”. NSX-T Federation enables customers to stretch their NSX-T deployments over multiple site and/or towards the public cloud, but still keeping one Single Pane of Management. With NSX for vSphere (NSX-v) this feature was also available and...
Using PowerShell to enumerate Log Insight events
When using the VMware NSX Distributed firewall, it’s common to use vRealize Log Insight for firewall rule analyses but there is a little problem with it, which I will try to explain and resolve. The great thing about the VMware NSX Distributed Firewall is that you can assign vSphere objects directly to the firewall...
PowerNSX: missing NSX Firewall rule functionality
PowerNSX (for vSphere) is a great tool for SDN automation. I use it on a daily basis and helps me and my customers a lot! But with every good product, there is always room for improvement! One of my customers asked me to add descriptions to existing IpSet object, add services to existing DFW...
Usefull vRNI queries to enable micro segmentation
This blog is related to earlier blogs: https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/designing-a-nsx-security-framework/https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/next-gen-network-security-topologies/https://datacenterdennis.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/nsx-security-vs-workability/ Introduction This blog may help you implement micro-segmentation by providing helpful vRNI queries. You can use these queries to identify VMs which should be placed into the different segments. You can read here what vRealize Network Insight is and how it works. This blog will help...
PowerShell: PS-Module for NSX on vCloud Director
A powershell module for NSX on vCloud Director...
ITQ Transform ’19 – it was awesome
Yesterday on the 27th of september in Fort Voordorp in Groenekan (Netherlands) ITQ held their Transform event. For those who could not attend this event, here is a little re-cap: In the morning (before the Transform event really kicked of) ITQ held a unique VMware Cloud on AWS Master Class course: A 3 hour...
LACP and vSphere (ESXi) hosts: not a very good marriage
I receive a lot of questions from customers if they should implement LACP rather or not, so without further ado: In this blog I’m going to talk about if it is a good idea to configure LACP between your ESXi hosts and the physical switched network? The Link Aggregation Control Protocol delivers enhanced features...
NSX-v: understanding and overcoming DFW firewall rule maximums
In this blog I’m going into the deep down holes of the DFW firewall rule maximums of VMware NSX for vSphere. As the stated maximum on the configmax-website are soft-limits and not hard-limits. Let discuss what the hard limit of the amount of DFW rules is. Let’s start by talking about the Distributed Firewall...