The latest major release of VMware Cloud on AWS includes a wealth of new features. See the release notes for a definitive list. In this post, I'm going to walk through two of these new features, specific to Networking & Security. VMC Networking UI in standalone modeNSX Traceflow for Visibility and Self-serve Troubleshooting Photo by Piotr … Continue reading VMC on AWS – VMC Networking UI & Traceflow →

Photo by FLY:D on Unsplash Introduction This is Part 2 of a multi part blog series, focusing on the NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS. If you have not already reviewed Part 1, click here DISCLAIMER: In this post I will be running vulnerability scans and attacks against a purposely vulnerable web application. Utilizing … Continue reading NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 2 – Distributed IDS/IPS →

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I'll provide a quick overview of the new NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS and walk through enabling the add on and individual features. This will be a multi part blog series, and I'll walk through each feature in more detail in different parts. NSX Advanced Firewall … Continue reading NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 1 – Overview and enabling the Add-on →

VMware HCX was announced at VMworld Europe 2017.  Use cases for the solution include Infrastructure Hybridity & Workload Mobility.   See the official product page and this blog post or more information In this post I'm going to walk through some basic steps to validate and troubleshoot NSX Hybrid Connect, a.k.a HCX utilizing diagnostic tools built … Continue reading Troubleshooting HCX →