Author: Danilo

Implementing NSX Micro-Segmentation is an article that explains how VMware NSX Distributed Firewall can be used to protect workloads through advanced traffic filtering. In this example, we will explore how to apply micro-segmentation rules to control communication between virtual machines inside the same network segment. First and Foremost, Do you talk about distributed firewalls? What is this and how does it work? DFW is the acronym for Distributed Firewall or Distributed Firewalling. With this resource, all Host Transport Nodes (ESXi hosts) have your firewall modules locally implementing the firewall. Because of that, we called it a Distributed Firewall. So, in…

Accessing an RDP Server Pool Through the NSX ALB is an article that shows how to load balance user access to an RDP Server Pool using the NSX Advanced Load Balancer solution. First and Foremost, Did you know what is the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (ALB)? Welcome to the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly known as Avi Networks). The NSX Advanced Load Balancer makes it easy to apply load balancing, web application firewall, and container ingress to any application in any data center and cloud. If you would want to know more details about the NSX ALB, I highly recommend you to access…

Changing the NSX Manager user password through the API is an article that explains how to reset user passwords by using the NSX Manager API. In this guide, we will use the Postman application to send API requests and interact with the NSX Manager services. First and foremost, we will use the Postman application to interact with the NSX Manager API. You can download the application by accessing the below link: But, of course, you can use your preferred API tool 🙂 Accessing the NSX API Documentation After accessing the NSX Manager GUI, you can access the API documentation, as…

Checking VMware Hardware Compatibility Error on Debian 11 is an article that explains how to resolve a VMware Update Manager compatibility issue when checking a Debian 11 virtual machine. In this scenario, the Guest OS was installed with open-vm-tools, but the hardware compatibility check failed during the update process. A Brief Description Of the Issue I have installed Debian 11 as a Guest OS. During the installation process, I have installed the “open-vm-tools” too, as we can see in the below picture: When I tried to run the “CHECK STATUS” under the Updates tab, the task failed: Under Recent Tasks…

Integrating NSX with LDAP is an article that explains how to configure an LDAP server, such as Active Directory, as an authentication provider for the NSX Management Cluster. This integration allows administrators to use centralized directory services for user authentication and access management. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a standard protocol used to access and manage distributed directory services. In an enterprise environment, LDAP can store information about users, groups, and other network resources that can be used by solutions such as VMware NSX. In this guide, we will show the authentication process between NSX Manager and an LDAP…

Balancing a Web Application with NSX ALB is an article that shows how to balance web access to a specific application using the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Our aim is to show how to configure the NSX ALB Controller and create the Virtual Service to balance all client connections to the Web Servers. In this example, we have three Web Servers (Nginx) and all connections will be balanced using the Round-Robin Load Balance algorithm. We have written an article that explains the necessary steps to deploy the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller. You can access this article at the below…