My colleague Erik Scholten (vRealize specialist) was building a demo environment for a customer this week. In this environment, he wanted to demonstrate vRealize Automation (vRA) in all its glory and have NSX coupled to it so vRA could use NSX to micro-segment rolled out blueprints using the App Isolation option.
NSX is pretty easy to get off the ground for first use, which he did himself with ease. All that’s needed for one to be able to use the distributed firewall to micro-segment, is to deploy NSX Manager, connect it to vCenter and prepare the ESXi hosts. NSX was … Read more