Introducing NSX-T 3.0: What’s New

Introducing NSX-T 3.0: What’s New

In this blog we take a look at some of the key new features released in NSX-T 3.0. This release is jam packed with new functionality to help you secure workloads running both on-prem and in the cloud with full support for vSphere 7.0.

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NSX Basics - Creating Networks using Logical Switches

NSX Basics - Creating Networks using Logical Switches

In this video demonstration I will how you how to create new networks within the NSX environment and make them routable on an external network, all without making any changes to physical switches.

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NSX Basics – Introducing Service Composer

NSX Basics – Introducing Service Composer

Service Composer is a component within NSX that allows the automation of security policy. In this video demonstration I will show you how to use Service Composer to configure a security policy that can isolate a virtual machine if a virus is found.

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NSX Basics - Creating Firewall Rules Based on Active Directory User ID

NSX Basics - Creating Firewall Rules Based on Active Directory User ID

NSX Manager can be integrated with Active Directory to allow Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules to be applied based on the used identity. In this video I will demonstrate how AD based security groups can be used with the DFW to allow access for the SSH protocol.

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NSX Basics - Creating firewall rules to control RDP Access

NSX Basics - Creating firewall rules to control RDP Access

In this video demonstration I will configure the Distributed Firewall (DFW) to permit access to RDP only for a group of virtual machines. Using dynamic security groups within NSX manger allows new virtual machines meeting the criteria to be automatically protected when they are provisioned.

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NSX Basics - Creating a Firewall Rule to Block Ping Traffic

NSX Basics - Creating a Firewall Rule to Block Ping Traffic

In this video I will use security groups created in a previous demonstration to create a simple rule to block ping from a group of virtual machines.

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NSX Basics – Creating Security Groups

NSX Basics – Creating Security Groups

In this video I will walk through creating 3 type of security groups that can be used alongside the distributed firewall (DFW) to protect virtual machines.  

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 3 NSX Installation

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 3 NSX Installation

Continuing from where we left off in part 2 the next step is to prepare the hosts. Host preparation simply means installing several VIBS to each of the hosts within the cluster to enable functionality such a distributed firewall, distributed routing and VXLAN.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 4 Deploying NSX Controllers

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 4 Deploying NSX Controllers

This part will cover deploying NSX Controllers to the environment. These are responsible for control plane information for all logical networks as well as maintaining VTEP, MAC and ARP tables.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 2 NSX Manager Initial Configuration

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 2 NSX Manager Initial Configuration

Following from Part 1 the NSX Manger virtual machine should now be running and accessible via the web interface. To begin the configuration login to the NSX Manager Virtual Appliance using the admin account.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 1 Deploying NSX Manager

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 1 Deploying NSX Manager

In this series of blogs posts, I’m going to cover the deployment process of NSX-V and how to configure some of the components required to demonstrate functionality such as micro-segmentation, logical switching and distributed routing.

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Bitdefender Overview and Architecture #DTH1

Bitdefender Overview and Architecture #DTH1

At our first ‘Define Tomorrow Huddle Event’ Liam Puleo of Bitdfender gave our attendees an update of the new technologies and capabilities of Bitdefender’s products.

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New Year New Lab

This year I will be using a new lab I have built to test and evaluate software and blog about my findings. My intentions are to focus on the products below:

  • Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3 (including agents)
  • Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0
  • VMware NSX 6.4
  • Dell EMC Unity Virtual Storage Appliance
  • EMC Recover Point for VMs 5.1
  • vSAN 6.6.1
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What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

What you missed at Define Tomorrow 2017

Barry Coombs and Anthony Charman of ComputerWorld recorded a short webinar for those that couldn't join us in Bristol for the live. In this webinar, Barry and Anthony summarise the content from the day, in particular; VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX, data protection, Security and Workspace transformation including VMware Workspace ONE.

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My first experience of VMworld

My first experience of VMworld

This year was my first at VMworld Europe in Barcelona,  and during the incredibly busy week we saw lots of great announcements. This post will summarise my experience of VMworld 2017. 

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BizTech Brief #15

BizTech Brief #15

With most of the big industry events over, the majority of announcements and updates have already been released and the news is a little quiet. However, we have put together the biggest stories of the past week into one place. 

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