This week I’ve been working with Trend Deep Security 9.6 to get a Proof of Concept up and running to protect some internal management virtual machines with Trends agentless protection feature. Trend now integrates with NSX and In an NSX enabled environment, the Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DSVA) provides Anti-Malware, Integrity Monitoring, Web Reputation Service, Firewall, and Intrusion Prevention […] Read More
Released: NSX 6.2.3 – Packed Full Of New Features!
Last week VMware released NSX-v 6.2.3 Build 3979471 and it’s anything but your standard point release. Running through the list off the release notes this could have easily been a major dot release. In good news for vCloud Air Network Service Providers there have been some major enhancements to the Edge Services Gateways which adds availability […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Critical Update for NSX-v and vCNS
I generally don’t post around security releases but after going through the notes on CVE-2016-2079 I thought it was important enough to dedicate a post around. Mainly because it could impact those running NSX Edge Services Gateways or vShield Edges with the SSL-VPN service enabled for clients. Most vCloud Director based instances won’t have the […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 1 – Full NSX Support
As mentioned last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 and with it a list of significant new features and improvements. In this series I’ll go through most of the new additions a little deeper and comment around their significance. As I talked about last week in my introductory post one of the major updates […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Friends Don’t Let Friends Delete The VTEP PortGroup
Last week I posted a tweet saying “Friends don’t let friends delete the NSX-v VTEP PortGroup” and as most of us do in our industry we learn by doing and I found out the hard way that you shouldn’t mess with the PortGroup created during the Host Preparation of the NSX setup and configuration stage. […] Read More
VMworld 2016 : Session Voting #8808
Well this has crept up on us quickly this year! It’s time to vote for the VMworld Sessions that will be part of the US and Europe VMworld’s held later in the year. The Session Voting is more Session liking as you have the ability to mark multiple sessions as ones that you would like […] Read More
New NSX License Tier Thoughts and Transformers
Overnight there was a couple of NSX related events that took place…one was expected and one not so much. I have known about the next release of NSX code named Transformers going back to VMworld last year where I attended a couple of NDA sessions…What I wasn’t expecting was the announcement of separate licensing tiers […] Read More
Important – vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security’s days where numbered…with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been communicated to current vCNS customers that an upgrade to NSX-v would be on the cards to ensure continued support and functionality. The date has now been set for the EOA […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Controller Deployment Gone Bad?
With NSX becoming more and more widely available there are more NSX home labs being stood up and with that the chances of the NSX Controllers failing due to “Home Lab” nested issues become more prevalent. The NSX Controllers are Ubuntu Linux VMs and like any Linux VM are fairly sensitive to storage latency and […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Host Preparation Errors Out or Doesn’t Complete…Spins In Progress
I’ve had this situation happen a couple of times in production where NSX Host Preparation Install or Upgrade seems to hang forever without timing out and spinning the In Progress message…most recently in one of the Zettagrid Labs where we run NSX-v in #NestedESXi environments we had the exact issue and I decided (with the […] Read More