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VMware on AWS - How to restore NSX DFW firewall rules to previous state

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Customers who uses NSX day-in, day-out would like to have a point-in time restore functionality of DFW firewall rules. Many customer have a large footprints in VMC and make changes to DFW quite often. This feature was missing for long time and we could see its included in recent versions . Let's see how DFW configuration roll back works  NSX DFW configuration has versioning, and it is stored in the NSX Manager.  Every time when someone update DFW configuration, NSX creates one more version but keep storing the previous ones. You can rollback for previous config but reapplying it once again.  You can find the options under Networking & Security tab , > Security > Distributed Firewall . In the right side we see an Actions drop down. Choose View to get to the below screen.  Let’s go through the use case:  1. Original state- default config with no custom rules:  a. There are no saved configurations during last 30 days: In my existing test setup, with the current setting

Free NSX Books: 580 pages of awesomeness

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When I was around for VMworld, the topic which was discussed most on NSX and Automation. I was going through a link by  Romain DECKER and thought of sharing the same with you. What does the book covers:  NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1  NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2 Operationalizing VMware NSX Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1  –  Wade Holmes Main topics : NSX Micro-segmentation Components, Plan and Design for Micro-segmentation, Creating a Security Group Framework, Policy Creation Tools Download link :  VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1 VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2  –  Geoff Wilmington Main topics : Methodology and Application Visibility, vRealize Log Insight, Application Rule Manager, vRealize Network Insight, Download link :  VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2 Operationalizing VMware NSX  – Kevin Lees Main topics : People, Process, Tools, Consuming NSX Download link :  Operationalizing VMware NSX

VMworld US 2017 - Shaping the Future

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Just off from the VMworld 2017 US event. As always VMware featured a number of great announcements at VMworld 2017 including VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware customers can now run new or existing virtualized workloads in the AWS cloud while maintaining their current VMware tools and skill sets This announcement provides an important shift in the hybrid cloud market for businesses looking to adopt the agile flexibility and services of cloud while preserving infrastructure and investments in the datacenter Another BIG announcement was VMware and Pivotal Launch Pivotal Container Service (PKS) and Collaborate with Google Cloud to Bring Kubernetes to Enterprise Customers.     New Pivotal Container Service™ (PKS) Delivers a Simple Way to Deploy and Operate Production-Ready Kubernetes on VMware vSphere® and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)        PKS Features Kubernetes Distribution Built on Kubo, an Open Source Technology Created by Pivotal and Google Cloud, Addressing the Need fo