Securing NSXALB Using NSX
Presentation on securing NSXALB with NSX at UK VMUG The outline of the presentation is how to use the pre-populated security groups deployed by NSXALB into NSX to secure the platform.
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Configuring NSX Distributed IDS/IPS
NSX IDS Configuration workflow: Enabling NSX IDSP To enable distributed IDSP for standalone hosts or clusters where traffic passes through NSX virtual network segments – VLAN-backed and overlay. Note: The configuration flow to enable NSX-distributed IDS/IPS is as follows: Security > [Policy Management] IDS/IPS & Malware Prevention > Settings > Shared Within the Define Scope for Malware Prevention & IDS/IPS Deployment, select the cluster … Read more
Create an NSX-T manager health check within AVI
Create an NSX-T manager health check within AVI: As previously mentioned in this post AVI and heath check we want the ability to run an API health check against each node of the pool (NSX manager nodes). Before we create the virtual service we need to create a health monitor for the NSX-T managers. To … Read more
Load Balance NSX-T Managers using NSX-ALB (AVI)
The NSX-T Management Cluster comprises of three NSX-T Manager nodes to provide high availability and scalability. To support a single access point for the NSX-T Manager user interface and API, you can assign a VIP address for the NSX-T Management Cluster. Once the VIP is set, any UI and API requests to NSX-T are redirected … Read more
Deploy the AVI/NSX ALB Controller/s using Ansible
In this post, we will go through the process of deploying an AVI Controller cluster. The reason for deploying this as a cluster is to emulate a production deployment. AVI is supported on a single controller, but you lose control plane high availability. If your resource-constrained in your lab (AVI controllers are rather big), If … Read more
How To Use Ansible To Automate AVI deployments in a VMware Cloud
Introduction Server & infrastructure automation now plays an essential role in systems administration due to the disposable nature of modern environments. Tools such as Ansible are typically used to streamline the process of automating server setup by establishing standard procedures for new servers while also reducing human error associated with manual setups. It also offers the ability to … Read more
NSX-T IDFW how-to guide: How to consume NSX-T IDFW efficiently
I’ve had the privilege of working with VMware’s BU and the Livefire teams on an IDFW design that can be consumed at scale. Hopefully, people can make use of my findings. Note: That this design can be consumed by VDI. but in this example i’m am using RDSH. Requirements: Just some critical information in the … Read more
NSX-T IDFW how-to guide: Get NSX-T IDFW to consume a specific OU
NSX-T IDFW (identity firewall) is a great feature that enables customers to create Active Directory group-based Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules within an NSX-T deployment. One of the biggest challenges specifically in larger Active Directory deployments is the total number of users and a total number of groups that NSX-T 3.1.x can consume. At the current … Read more
How to Create the Service Engine Groups – NSX-ALB
Service Engines are created within a group, which contains the definition of how the SEs should be sized, placed, and made highly available. Each cloud will have at least one SE group. The options within an SE group may vary based on the type of cloud within which they exist and its settings, such as … Read more
How to Deploy VMware’s NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI) Management Cluster
In this section i will explain how to deploy an NSXALB controller and form a cluster. Once the cluster has been created we can deploy the (Data plane) Services Engines and the load balancers. Process: Deploy the Controllers Configure first controller node Configure Cluster Deploy the Controllers: Download the ova file and start the ova … Read more