NSX IDS Configuration workflow: Enabling NSX IDSP To enable distributed IDSP for standalone hosts or clusters where traffic passes through NSX virtual network segments – VLAN-backed and overlay. Note: The configuration flow to enable NSX-distributed IDS/IPS is as follows: Security > [Policy Management] IDS/IPS & Malware Prevention > Settings > Shared Within the Define Scope for Malware Prevention
Continue readingI’ve had the privilege of working with VMware’s BU and the Livefire teams on an IDFW design that can be consumed at scale. Hopefully, people can make use of my findings. Note: That this design can be consumed by VDI. but in this example i’m am using RDSH. Requirements: Just
Continue readingIn this section i will explain how to deploy an NSXALB controller and form a cluster. Once the cluster has been created we can deploy the (Data plane) Services Engines and the load balancers. Process: Deploy the Controllers Configure first controller node Configure Cluster Deploy the Controllers: Download the ova
Continue readingThe NSX-ALB Controller is the single point of management and control that serves as the “brain” of the entire system and for high availability is typically deployed as a three-node cluster. As its name implies, the Controller implements the control plane. A single NSX-ALB deployment is managed from this Controller/cluster
Continue readingWhat Is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Intrusion Detection (ID) is the process of monitoring for and identifying attempted unauthorized system access or manipulation. An ID system gathers and analyzes information from areas within the network to identify possible security breaches which include both intrusions (attack from outside the organization)
Continue readinglogin into the MSX manager UI https://nsxmanagerip Click System -> Overview -> Add Nodes: 2Select the Compute Manager from the drop-down menu, enable SSH (if required), enter the cli and root password, DNS, NTP and select the form factor: Note: Select the same form factor as of the first NSX-T manager
Continue readingPrerequisites IP Information Create four “Host A” records in your DNS server for the three NSX-T Manager/Controller nodes that will be deployed and one for the virtual IP. Her is an example that i have used in my environment FQDN IPnsxmgr01.lab.local 192.168.50.51nsxmgr02.lab.local 192.168.50.52nsxmgr03.lab.local 192.168.50.53nsxmgr.lab.local 192.168.1.50 DNS Server NSX-T Data Center
Continue readingProcess Open an SSH session to the first deployed NSX Manager node. (In my case 192.168.50.1 nsxmgr01.lab.local)Log in with the administrator credentials On the NSX Manager node, run the get certificate api thumbprint command. The command output is a string of numbers that is unique to this NSX Manager. Run
Continue readingWhat is a compute manager? A compute manager, for example, vCenter Server, is an application that manages resources such as hosts and VMs. In the current release only vCenter is supported NSX-T Data Center polls compute managers to collect cluster information from vCenter Server. This helps with the auto deployment of new nodes
Continue readingStep one: taking a Network Interface Card inventory on an ESXi host Step Two: Collect NIC Vendor and device ID numbers: Step Three: Decode the NIC Vendor and device ID numbers into the format VID:DID SVID:SSID Example: VID = Vendor Id = 14e4 DID = Device Id = 165f SVID = Sub-Vendor
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