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NSX-v Security Policy Applied To Considerations

When working with the Service Composer in NSX-v, by default, when a firewall rule is created in a Security Policy, the firewall rule, when applied, uses the default Applied To value of Distributed Firewall. This means that even though the firewall rule is part of a security policy which is then applied to a specific security group, the rule would be pushed down to every vNIC within the clusters that have been prepared for NSX DFW capabilities and have the firewall enabled. One of the new features introduced in NSX-v 6.2 […]


OSX Base64 Encoded Credentials

For those who have used the NSX vSphere REST API, you will know that with every API call you are required to send the following in the headers: Content-Type application/xml Basic <base64 encoded credentials> So if you have an OSX machine, you can leverage openssl (which is installed by default) […]