VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Architect 2024 As many of you might already know VMware by Broadcom simplified its portfolio and VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) is going to be the prime product offering moving forward. So skills on VCF would be on huge demand moving forward in private cloud environments. I recently […]
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With the aim of simplifying the process of onboarding existing vSphere and vSAN environments into a full stack private cloud platform, VCF Import becomes a crucial new feature for infrastructure users looking to modernize infrastructure without downtime. This feature allows for immediate integration into VMware Cloud Foundation, reducing the time investment and complexity that normally
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Important Updates Goal of this blog is to highlight important standouts out of huge release notes BOM (Bill of Materials ) SDDC Manager 5.2, Cloud Builder 5.2 vCenter 8.0 U3, ESXi 8.0 U3 vSAN 8.0 U3 NSX 4.2.0 Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 Aira Operations for Networks 6.12.1 HCX 4.10 VCF Import Tool (for vSphere
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Important Updates Goal of this blog is to highlight important standouts out of huge release notes TEP Groups Earlier traffic from ESXi hosts to Edge will go through one Edge TEP interface despite of multiple Edge TEP interfaces availability. This could lead to bandwidth constraints in some environments. With NSX 4.2 new feature bundles
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An easy way to increase the security of an environment, and a common practice for most IT organizations, is to replace the self-signed certificates that are generated during installation with a certificate signed by the organization’s Certificate Authority (CA). VMware Cloud Foundation simplifies this process allowing customers to easily update and manage these certificates. You can
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VMware Cloud Foundation provides the ability to manage passwords for logical and physical entities on all racks in your system. The process of password rotation generates randomized passwords for the selected accounts. You can change passwords for the following entities: ESXi vCenter / PSC NSX Manager NSX Edges Internal backup account SDDC Manager Log
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Introduction NSX Malware Prevention is a secure isolation environment that detects malicious artifacts. It analyzes the behavior of objects, such as files and URLs, to determine if they are benign or malicious. Because it does not rely on signatures, the sandbox can detect novel and highly targeted malware that has never been seen before. It
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Introduction NSX Intrusion Detection System / Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) technology inspects all traffic that enters or leaves the network, detecting and preventing known threats from gaining access to the network, critical systems, and data. IDS/IPS looks for known malicious traffic patterns to hunt for attacks in the traffic flow. When it finds such attacks,
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Introduction IDPS, Network Sandbox and NTA all produce alerts that are related to individual hosts. NDR aggregation engine collects signals from individual detection technologies. It combines them to reach a verdict (malicious or benign) on network activities. The correlation engines combine multiple related alerts into an “intrusion campaign.” The context engines collect data from various
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The goal of the NSX Suspicious Traffic feature is to detect suspicious or anomalous network traffic behaviors in your NSX environment. You may have heard this feature referred to as NTA (Network Traffic Analysis). Requirements: This feature requires NAPP to be deployed in the environment NSX Intelligence should be activated and operational Requires additional ATP
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NSX Intelligence is a security analytics engine that delivers granular security and segmentation, simplifying policy compliance and streamlining security operations. NSX Intelligence is a security analytics tool that can help understand your component flows and recommend firewall rules. NSX Intelligence heavily benefits from the distributed nature of NSX. Because NSX is already built into the
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Upgrade the NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and NSX Features In this blog I will show you the end to end upgrade process of NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and all associated NSX Features. In my case all features(Intelligence, NDR and MP) based on top of NAPP were in use. So it is going to be
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