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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
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Startup guide for vSphere Automation SDK for REST API

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VMware introduced a new API service in vSphere 6.5 version which is known as vSphere Automation API. This service allows us to introduce several new SDKs for JAVA, Perl, Ruby, REST etc.   Today we will see how to setup the basic wizard to start using the API service in day to day life. For more information about what was introduced with the vSphere Automation APIs visit Here Documentation : The documentation for this SDK version is pretty straight forward. We can browse to each level of API and see the sections of what the operations it performs. We can get the URL, JSON , XML representation for each and every operations in the document. SDK Documentation   SDK tool kit: You can download the SDK kit from VMware { code } Tools required: We will use Postman today so that we will be able to start working with the API quickly and build your knowledge of how it works before using API in your own application. Postman is a great application to design, bu
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vSphere 6.7 released !

As we are aware VMware comes up with a new release of vsphere every year. and VMware didn't fail to excite us with the new features and innovations this time too! In this blog post lets have a sneak peak about the new features which are bundled with vSphere 6.7 vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for hybrid clouds, fueling digital transformation by delivering simple and efficient management at scale, comprehensive built-in security, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience. vSphere 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their IT infrastructure: Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business critical apps to new intelligent workloads. Rapid growth of hybrid cloud environments and use cases. On-premises data centers growing and expanding globally, including at the Edge. Security of infrastructure and applications a
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