Yearly archives: 2017


Monitoring DFW Heap Usage

When operating NSX-v DFW at scale, the recommendation from VMware on memory/heap usage per host is to stick to a maximum of around 80% usage. But then this often raises the question of how to monitor the actual memory/heap the the DFW is consuming per host. As the NSX-v Distributed […]


Log Insight & NSX-v DFW 1

I was recently asked by a customer who is running NSX vSphere (NSX-v) and Log Insight, is there a way they can export data from Log Insight that will give them the unique source/destination/protocol/destinationPort from the DFW logs for a given ruleId over a given time period. This exported data […]