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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

How can VMware Integrated Containers be useful in real life scenario - PART1

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What is VIC: VIC - vSphere Integrated Containers enable IT, teams, to seamlessly run traditional workloads and container workloads side-by-side on existing vSphere infrastructure. The solution is delivered in the form of an appliance just like any other VMware mgmt solution. The appliance comprises of,  vSphere Integrated Containers Engine , a container runtime for vSphere that allows you to provision containers as virtual machines, offering the same security and functionality of virtual machines in VMware ESXi™ hosts or vCenter Server® instances. vSphere Integrated Containers Plug-In for vSphere Client , that provides information about your vSphere Integrated Containers set up and allows you to deploy virtual container hosts directly from the vSphere Client. vSphere Integrated Containers Registry (Harbor) , an enterprise-class container registry server that stores and distributes container images. vSphere Integrated Containers Registry extends the Docker Distri