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RT @vWilmo: [New Blog]The VMware NSX Platform – Healthcare Series – Part 6: DMZ Anywhere Practical

The VMware NSX Platform – Healthcare Series –…

Continuing our discussion on the topic of Healthcare and the DMZ use case, we’re going to put these concepts into actual practice. With Healthcare systems, patients want access to their information quickly and not necessarily within the four walls of a Healthcare organization. This means that this information needs to be provided to Internet-facing devices for secure access. Below is the layout we’re going to use as a typical layout with Internet-facing EMR Patient Portal for customers using traditional methods.

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VMware Tightens NSX Integration with Photon – http://www.sdxcentral.com

VMware Tightens NSX Integration with Photon

AUSTIN, Texas — Today at the Dockercon 2017 conference, VMware announced that an integration between its NSX network virtualization software and Photon OS has been significantly enhanced. Photon OS is a lightweight distribution of Linux developed by VMware to host containers.

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VMware NSX Unplugged: Networking Field Day (#NFD15)

VMware NSX Unplugged: Networking Field Day…

Being a product of the 90’s, one of my favorite past times was MTV’s “Unplugged” series. Whether it was Pearl Jam, or 10,000 Maniacs, or Eric Clapton, there was something about the acoustic, raw, uncut nature of the show that drew me in and made me look at my favorite bands in a new way.

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Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing

Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing

Curious about getting started with VMware NSX load balancing ? Let’s dive in and take a look at how to get started, and the features it provides . . .

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Using Microsegmentation as a Network Virtualization Firewall

Using Microsegmentation as a Network…

No one likes to admit it but most of what has passed for IT security in the enterprise has historically been rudimentary at best. Most organizations physically segmented their networks behind a series of firewalls deployed at the edge of the network. The trouble is that once malware gets past the firewall it could move laterally almost anywhere in the data center.

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New NSX Icons (CY2016) [communities.vmware.com]

New NSX Icons (CY2017)

These are the new powerpoint icons (CY 2017) which can be used for #RunNSX.

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VXLAN and OTV – What is the difference ? [www.ttlbits.com]

VXLAN and OTV – What is the difference ?

Thanks for the previous responses on the various topics i posted in this blogs. I knew there are lot of topics on the Data-center discussion and people are moving more to the datacenter technologies. It has been seen that there are lot of changes done in the design of the datacenter environment.

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Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing [blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization]

Getting Started with NSX Load Balancing

In my conversations with customers and peers, load balancing is becoming an increasingly popular discussion. Why you may ask? Simple, load balancing is a critical component for most enterprise applications to provide both availability and scalability to the system. Over the last decade we have moved from bare metal servers to virtual servers and from manual deployment of operating systems to using tools like Chef, Puppet, vRA or other custom workflows. In addition to the movement towards virtualization and the API being the new CLI, we are also seeing a movement to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) where Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) such as routing, VPN, firewalls, and load balancing are moving to software. The value of…Read More

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The VMware NSX Platform – Healthcare Series – Part 4.3: Micro-segmentation Practical – vRealize Network Insight [vwilmo.wordpress.com]

The VMware NSX Platform – Healthcare Series -…

In the last post, we showed the methodology to building out Micro-segmentation rules for the OpenMRS EMR application in the test environment. This was a straightforward process using the VMware NSX Distributed Firewall and vRealize Log Insight. The process became even simpler when we leveraged the new NSX 6.3 feature – Application Rule Manager. More importantly it gives us a starting point for applications to provide a Zero-Trust security posture.

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Automated NSX DFW validation with PowerNSX, Traceflow & NSX API [vxsan.com]

Automated NSX DFW validation with PowerNSX,…

For a project i’m currently working on, we need to provide a full end-to-end validation of the NSX routing, distributed firewall rules and VXLAN functionality. As the amount and complexity of firewall rules are quite significant, i’ve written a script that allows you to run and retrieve data from NSX Traceflow in an automated fashion, which can be found at https://bitbucket.org/srobroek/pnsx-traceflow/. (Note: this is still very preliminary, needs some feature updates and hopefully will at some point be merged into PowerNSX).

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vCNS to NSX Upgrade Guide [vwud.net]

vCNS to NSX Upgrade Guide

I have put together a short guide on how to upgrade from vCNS to NSX please find inks to each section below. Pre-Upgrade Tasks vCNS Manager to NSX Manager Upgrade Host Preparation Tasks vShield Edges to NSX Edges Upgrade Tasks vShield Endpoints to NSX Guest Introspection Upgrade Tasks Post Upgrade Tasks

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vCNS to NSX Upgrades – Pre Upgrade Steps [vwud.net]

vCNS to NSX Upgrades – Pre Upgrade Steps

Pre-Upgrade Steps One or more days before the upgrade, do the following: Verify that vCNS is at least version (See point 8 Below) Check you are running one of the following recommended builds vSphere 5.5U3 or vSphere 6.0U2 Verify that all required ports are open (please see appendix A) Verify that your vSphere environment has sufficient…Read More

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Software-Defined Networking Pioneer Martin Casado Looks Back, Forward [www.eweek.com]

Software-Defined Networking Pioneer Martin…

Nicira founder Martin Casado talks about where software-defined networking is going and how far the Open Networking Summit has come.

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After using both NSX and ACI, engineer says VMware wins his vote [searchsdn.techtarget.com]

After using both NSX and ACI, engineer says…

Sugar Creek Packing Co. sidestepped the NSX vs. ACI debate and deployed both. Now, a senior network engineer shares which technology he would recommend to enterprises.

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MicroSegmentation of Applications using Application Rule Manager [blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization]

MicroSegmentation of Applications using…

“Micro-Segmentation provides a way to build a zero-trust network – where all networks, perimeters and application are inherently untrusted.” – declared Forrester Consulting in 2015 with their white paper Leveraging Micro-Segmentation to build zero-trust model. The last mile in creating a truly zero-trust network implies not trusting each application and also tiers within an application (Figure 1). To complete the last mile, network, security and risk professionals are increasingly looking for tools to understand application communication patterns and providing access controls to them. With version 6.3.0, NSX has unveiled 2 new tools, namely, Application Rule Manager (ARM) and Endpoint Monitoring (EM), to help professionals understand…Read More

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NSX News You can Use by Roger Fortier – 04/03/2017 [vmwaresheng.wordpress.com]

NSX News You can Use by Roger Fortier – 04/03/2017

April 3, 2017virtualshengLeave a comment Source: @rogertfortierTop VMware NSX News TechTarget: Dell EMC VxRail leads college toward ‘software-defined everything’TechTarget: Could market saturation push VMware to make vSphere Standard free?The Register: Community vid reveals demos of vSphere-on-AWS cloud concoctionEnterpriseTech: EMC Storage Driving Dell RevenuesSDxCentral: Dell Technologies Reports Positive Q4 Earnings, EMC Boosts ResultsPacketPushers: VMware Kills Off Third-Party VSwitchesThe Register:VMware to end support for third-party virtual switchesVMware NSX BlogsRadius: Digital Transformation and the End of Network IncrementalismThe Network Virtualization Blog: Kubernetes and VMware NSXThe Network Virtualization Blog: Software…Read More

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VMware NSX ebook [www.data3.com]

VMware NSX ebook

The need to secure enterprise IT infrastructure and data is intuitive, but how we achieve that security must change; traditional security concepts need to evolve.

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NSX Design Notes (6/10) – Load Balancer [nxgcloud.com]

NSX Design Notes (6/10) – Load Balancer

Load balancing service is provided by NSX Edge device.

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NSX Design Notes (1/10) – Functional Components [nxgcloud.com]

NSX Design Notes (1/10) – Functional Components

NSX Manager Virtual Appliance – NSX Management plane NSX Manger : vCenter -> 1:1 Responsible for Deployment of control clusters and ESX Host preparation (install VIBs). Deployment and configuration of NSX Edges (ESG and DLR). SSL Creates self-signed ssl certificates for control cluster nodes and esxi hosts. Control plane communication is encrypted. SSL

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Announcing the new VMware NSX Community at VMUG!

Announcing the new VMware NSX Community at VMUG!

Chris McCain, Director of Product Management at VMware, and Brad Tompkins, CEO at VMUG, join forces to talk about the new NSX community at VMUG, dedicated to network and security virtualization. This free community will offer individuals an opportunity for Q&A with NSX experts and product managers, special community content, discussions with peers, and much more. So signup for the new NSX community at VMUG today, get active immediately, and you could be one of our lucky winners in the month of April! Join today: http://www.vmug.com/nsx Read the blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2017/04/nsx-community-vmug

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