Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. IT leaders are responding with a variety of different microsegmentation approaches, all designed to isolate workloads from each other and prevent unauthorized lateral movements. Here are their stories.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Firewall 152

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

VMware Cloud Verified, IT Vortex boasts numerous offerings based on VMware technologies. We bundle virtual firewalls, layered antivirus, Security Operations Center-as-a-Service, 24/7/365 alerts and monitoring, and more to ensure that our clients are protected in the cloud from day one.”. Cloud Management, Green IT

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.Net Vmware Disaster Recovery Data Center 98

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). It enables Internet at Scale.

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Network Security Vmware Virtualization 150

Network World

JANUARY 31, 2017

In actuality, coarse-grained segmentation has been around for decades in the form of firewalls, VLANs and ACLs, but companies like Illumio and VMware have extended the paradigm to applications, workloads and users. One of the big advancements in data center security has been the rise of segmentation tools.

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Data Center Firewall Network Vmware 60

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 30, 2013

VMware equates network virtualization to Server Virtualization. I re-read the VMware post announcing the NSX product and it all kind of just clicked for me. Source VMware. These virtual ports can then be assigned to a virtualized Firewall, Switch, Router or IDS ports based on the need. Related Posts.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Firewall 81

Scott Lowe

JUNE 23, 2020

The “TL;DR” is the Vagrant can offer users a consistent workflow to creating and destroying VMs across a fairly wide number of platforms, including both local providers (like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion/VMware Workstation) and cloud provider (such as AWS and Azure).

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Vmware .Net Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). (I think some other vendors might take issue with that claim.)

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Network World

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Trend faces stiff competition here and the company doesn’t offer a network firewall, but its IPS/sandbox story should play well, especially in the small enterprise market. Trend has a history here as it was one of the first vendors to work with VMware VMSafe APIs years ago. Cloud and virtualization support.

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Trends Enterprise Enterprise Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Who else knew that HAProxy could route SSH connections ?

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Read more about it here. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. Or virtualized firewalls?

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. The issue lies with VMware Tools, apparently; see Jason’s post for full details.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Want to install ESXi 5.5

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. Leased lines and direct connects would remain in the data center as part of this strategy, but Hoag did not want to route users through the data center to access data on the cloud.

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CTO Network Cloud Data Center 97

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. We are the nerds,” he says. “We

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System Automotive Trends Industry 137

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. I am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie. This looks interesting.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches).

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches).

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Naturally, given that the product was only announced today, these are very early thoughts. .”

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. I suppose this is fully expected, given the impact of VMware and hypervisors.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches).

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. VPC allows customers to leverage IP addressing schemes that fit into their own addressing schemes, and supports ACLs, stateful firewalling (security groups), route tables, etc. Butler says there will be some demos along the way.

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Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It effortlessly integrates with any area of the IT infrastructure, be it provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating firewall rules. Moreover, Ansible comes in handy with aspects that other tools leave gaps in, such as zero-stop and continuous updates for multitier applications across the infrastructure.

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Tools Applications Network Firewall 94

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

VMware NSX has a stateful IPv6 firewall that provides RA guard and ND inspection services. Microsoft also has a stateful IPv6 firewall.). IPv4-only implementations include Nuage Virtual Services Platform (VSP) and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). With that, Ivan wraps up the session.

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IPv6 Firewall Network Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware' Just getting started in the networking field? Interesting. Technology Short Take #25. Technology Short Take #29.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows that the E5 processor provides higher throughput at lower CPU usage with VMDq compared to a Xeon 5500 CPU (tests were done using an Intel X520 with VMware ESXi 5.0). as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Network World

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Cisco ACI, CloudPassage, Illumio, Unisys, vArmour, VMware NSX, etc.).

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Firewall Network Symantec Data Center 82

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

In the event you accidentally locked yourself out of vCenter using NSX’s distributed firewall, this post by Roie Ben Haim provides a workaround for getting yourself out of this pickle. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product? This would be one reason.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2015

By the way, my testing was performed using OpenStack Icehouse running KVM on Ubuntu 12.04, with virtual networking provided by VMware NSX.). I verified there was no firewall configuration present that would cause the problem, but the issue persisted.

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Linux Cloud Firewall Vmware 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Detailed reports. What to Monitor.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

N Apps manipulating government data, e.g., where laws require direct data oversight Many government databases are required to be maintained within government facilities behind government firewalls. When I worked at VMware, one of the questions we often (always?) Ken Oestreich. Labels: Cloud Computing. 3 comments: jgannonwp.

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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