Accelerating Application Security with Network Insight and External Integrations
Using VMware NSX, your applications can be seamlessly secured, throughout your entire environment. Whether it be on-prem or in the cloud, NSX has got you covered. The journey to application security using NSX’s micro-segmentation can be significantly accelerated by using vRealize Network Insight. As you…
Nieuwe deepdive community events in Networking & Security en Management & Automatisering
[this is a Dutch post because it’s about two new Dutch spoken community events] Op 25 en 26 September 2018 worden er twee nieuwe gratis technische deepdive evenementen georganiseerd door een aantal VMware Partners voor de community. Daarvan is de 25ste volledig gefocust op Networking…
What is the VMware Virtual Cloud Network?
A couple of weeks ago, VMware launched the Virtual Cloud Network (VCN). It’s kind of obvious that this is a marketing term and not a specific product or service. However, it’s not all fluff and there is actually some good meat behind this announcement and…
VMware NSX & OTRS – Automating Security with Help Desk Systems
Over the last couple of months, Sander, Anne Jan and I have been working on a security whitepaper that lays out a practical implementation of zero trust while interfacing with a helpdesk system. In this case, OTRS. It’s all about how engineers can get access…
vExpert 2018 Announcement – All VMGurus now vExperts
The VMware Social team announced the vExpert class of 2018 yesterday. With the acceptance of Dimitri into the vExpert program, I’m proud to say that all the VMGurus are now vExperts: vExpert Directory Some crazier than others, Erik has been a vExpert for a decade…
PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery
PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download…
Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources
This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources. Data Sources Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches,…
NSX for vSphere 6.4 is here (and it’s massive!)
Just as the title says, NSX-v 6.4 has just dropped. I my opinion, they should’ve called it NSX-v 7.0 though, considering the amount of new and cool stuff that is in there. I’ll go through the most prolific new and shiny features below. Distributed Firewall…
Introducing PowervRNI
I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious tasks like creating applications and managing data sources. I was using…
Top Posts & Stats of 2017
2017 is almost done and 2018 is upon us. Looking back at this blog and its posts in 2017, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for going on the virtualisation journey with us! We’ve had another awesome year, filled with good content…
