Welcome to Part 8 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous chapters, we demonstrated full and partial hierarchy imports based on the datacenter / application topology and Security Intelligence automated the security tag assignments to workloads, assets and NSX group creation and the necessary infrastructure, environment and…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 8 – Promoting NSX Groups
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 7 – Partial Hierarchy and Incremental Import
Welcome back and New Year Wishes to all the readers!!! We are at Part 7 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous three chapters, we discussed the full hierarchy import procedure (5 hierarchy levels) of the Prod and Dev CRM applications and completed the segmentation journey by…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 7 – Partial Hierarchy and Incremental Import
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 6 – Segmentation Monitoring and Policy Recommendations
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 6 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous two chapters (Part 4 and Part 5), we onboarded two instances of the CRM application (CRM-Prod and CRM-Dev) as a full hierarchy import to SSP, published the inventory assets and foundational infrastructure and…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 6 – Segmentation Monitoring and Policy Recommendations
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 5 – Publishing Assets and Policies
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 5 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous chapter, we performed an application hierarchy ingestion and generated the recommendations for assets and policies. Now let’s start publishing the assets and policies and review the NSX objects that are created by the…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 5 – Publishing Assets and Policies
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 4 – Application Hierarchy Import
Welcome to Part 4 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. This chapter along with the subsequent six chapters will focus on application hierarchy imports to SSP and the DFW 1-2-3-4 approach for shared infrastructure services protection, environment / zone segmentation, application microsegmentation, NSX groups promotion, application scaling, application transitions,…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 4 – Application Hierarchy Import
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 3 – NSX Onboarding and Feature Activation
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 3 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In this chapter we will onboard the NSX manager cluster to SSP and activate Security Intelligence and DFW Rule Analysis features. If you missed the previous chapters of this series, please check out from the links…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 3 – NSX Onboarding and Feature Activation
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 2 – Platform Deployment
Welcome to Part 2 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. Part 1 provided an overview of SSP and security segmentation journey covering the requirements, platform components, deployment topologies, segmentation planning and a short comparison between SSP and its predecessor NAPP. Here is the link to Part 1, in case…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 2 – Platform Deployment
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 1 – Introduction
NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and the automation appliance (NAPP-AA) is scheduled to be end of life by May 2026. If you recollect, we did a couple of blog series around NAPP and NAPP-AA previously, please check out if you are still interested: NAPP series: https://vxplanet.com/2023/05/03/nsx-4-1-application-platform-napp-part-1/ NAPP-AA series: https://vxplanet.com/2024/04/16/nsx-application-platform-automation-appliance-napp-aa-part-1-topology-and-appliance-deployment/ Now the question is, what is the…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 1 – Introduction
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 10 – Zonal Supervisor with AVI Availability Zones
Welcome back!!! If you are reading this, Congratulations, you have reached the final and Part 10 of the month-long blog series on vSphere supervisor with NSX and AVI. This will be another interesting topic as we are going to deal with vSphere supervisor deployed across vSphere zones and also introduce a new feature in AVI…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 10 – Zonal Supervisor with AVI Availability Zones
vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 9 – Multiple Supervisors on Dedicated NSX Transport Zones
Let’s continue our discussion around the topology for multiple vSphere supervisors with NSX and AVI. This is Part 9 and, in this article, we will discuss the second design option where each vSphere supervisor is prepared on a dedicated NSX overlay transport zone. If you missed the previous article where we discussed about multiple vSphere…… Continue reading vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 9 – Multiple Supervisors on Dedicated NSX Transport Zones
