Eric Sloof

NSX Multi-Tenancy

In this video we will cover the NSX multi-tenant capabilities, including IP overlap and re-use, per-tenant services, and per-tenant security policy and isolation. 

Using NSX to make a Virtualized DMZ

Need a more specific use-case to get started with Micro-segmentation and the NSX Distributed Firewall? Your DMZ is an excellent place to start! Why let your blast-area be the entire DMZ network.

Automation Isn’t On Your Radar, And It Should Be

Take a step back, and learn how Automation of networking and security could be your organization's answer to surviving the evolving technology and threat landscape. 

Next Generation NetOps and SecOps Platform

Network Virtualization is driving a new class of operations tools. vRealize Network Insight is a leading product in this area. Network Insight leverages the intelligence within NSX Manager, vCenter... 

Network and Security Operations

Network and security operations traditionally have been handled by two different operations teams, although much of the same operations data is used, but differently on whether the operations team ... 

Service Chaining in OpenStack with NSX

Learn how Network Introspection provided by NSX and 3rd party security vendors works with the OpenStack framework. This approach provides more insight and visibility into the application traffic, u... 

Neutron in the Enterprise

OpenStack Neutron defines two major types of networks- tenant networks and provider networks. OpenStack administrators must decide what their Neutron network deployment strategy will leverage- tena... 

VMware Integrated OpenStack Grouping Constructs

The vSphere platform include grouping constructs like DRS Host and VM groups, Anti-Affinity/Affinity rules. In this video we will cover these grouping constructs and how to consume them with VMware... 

Virtualization Eats Everything

While folks in the Security and Networking silos have been busy addressing threats; or developing networks for modern data centers - something else has been evolving outside of their view, which th... 

How NSX Uses VXLAN

NSX is referred to as an “overlay” technology but what is actually doing the work on the back end to transfer that data back and forth? VXLAN is the unsung hero protocol moving data in and out of t... 

NSX and Service Composer intro

It shortens your firewall rules, automates your application security services, allows you to visualize all of your security policies all in real time… and if you own NSX, it’s free! Join VMware’s J... 

NSX and Asymmetric Routing

Enabling Equal Cost Multi Pathing (ECMP) in a data center is great…but… what about my asymmetric routes? If I have to turn off the firewall, then how does this degrade my security in my data center... 

NSX Troubleshooting 101 - Do my physical skills translate in a virtual world?

You worked hard to build a proficient set of skills on a time tested and battle worn set of tools. Now that you’re are migrating to a software define data center will these skills build up dust lik... 

NSX - How do I know if I need it or not?

Not all data centers are created equal. Oh sure we believe NSX is the greatest thing since cornbread and chicken. The reality is any product that goes into your data center must be able to increase... 

NSX is a Services Fabric

In this video we examine the challenges with the business process, network architectures, and the cloud impose when it comes to deploying and scaling common data center services. NSX solves the st... 

NSX Security Partner Integration

In this video we will discuss the NSX services platform capabilities, and the integration of security partners. After watching this video, you should be familiar with the security features of NSX a... 

Using NSX to create a Virtualized DMZ

In this session, we compare our current DMZ architecture and how leveraging NSX and virtualization can provide a more agile and secure architecture. 

Automated Policy Detection and Enforcement

In this session, Hadar Freehling explains how leveraging NSX and virtualization can be a powerful tool to help manage security incidents. 

NSX and Compliance

In this session, Hadar Freehling explains how leveraging NSX can help reduce your audit scope and help you meet your PCI and HIPAA compliance regulations. 

VMware Identity Manager supports the configuration of multiple data centers in active / hot standby mode for efficient failover functionality. This paper includes detailed instructions for configuring VMware Identity Manager across multiple data centers to provide a high-availability solution.

This video demonstrates how to Purge old data from the SQL Server database used by vCenter Server

When the vCenter Server database if full:

• You cannot log in to vCenter Server
• VMware VirtualCenter Server service may start and stop immediately.

To resolve this issue, we need to manually purge or truncate the vCenter Server database. The script to truncate the database is available at the Resolution of the KB Article 1025914 in the "Truncate the event and tasks table" section. For additional information, see VMware Knowledge Base article 1025914 at the following URL https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025914

VMFS6 is a new generation datastore introduced in the vSphere 6.5 release. Among other features, VMFS6 supports automatic space reclamation on thin-provisioned storage arrays.

Deduplication and compression enable considerable capacity savings across the entire Virtual SAN cluster — especially in environments where standard OS builds (templates and clones) are used and where there is abundant data commonality such as file shares. 

RAID-5/6 erasure coding reduces capacity consumption by as much as 50% versus RAID-1 (mirroring) with the same levels of availability for FTT=1 and FTT=2 Virtual SAN rule sets.


This click-through demo shows the process of enabling vSAN Deduplication and Compression and the resulting savings achieved.

Dig a little deeper to see how the VMware SDDC stack runs on AWS to provide a consistent operational hybrid model that delivers capacity and services on demand. Includes a look into networking configuration options and the power of elastic DRS (eDRS) and auto remediation.

VMware offers the industry-leading software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture that combines compute, storage, networking, and management offerings into a single unified platform. This book uses the most up-to-date, cutting-edge VMware products to help you deliver a complete unified hybrid cloud experience within your infrastructure.

It will help you build a unified hybrid cloud based on SDDC architecture and practices to deliver a fully virtualized infrastructure with cost-effective IT outcomes. In the process, you will use some of the most advanced VMware products such as VSphere, VCloud, and NSX.

You will learn how to use vSphere virtualization in a software-defined approach, which will help you to achieve a fully-virtualized infrastructure and to extend this infrastructure for compute, network, and storage-related data center services. You will also learn how to use EVO:RAIL. Next, you will see how to provision applications and IT services on private clouds or IaaS with seamless accessibility and mobility across the hybrid environment.

This book will ensure you develop an SDDC approach for your datacenter that fulfills your organization's needs and tremendously boosts your agility and flexibility. It will also teach you how to draft, design, and deploy toolsets and software to automate your datacenter and speed up IT delivery to meet your lines of businesses demands. At the end, you will build unified hybrid clouds that dramatically boost your IT outcomes.

What you will learn

• Understand and optimize end-to-end processes in your data center
• Translate IT processes and business needs into a technical design
• Apply and create vRO workflow automation functionalities to services
• Deploy NSX in a virtual environment
• Technically accomplish DevOps offerings
• Set up and use vROPs to master the SDDC resource demands
• Troubleshoot all the components of SDDC

This course explains the features and benefits of VMware vRealize Network Insight and describes essential installation processes. The course provides details about the product architecture and demonstrates how to access and navigate various tasks in the vRealize Network Insight user interface.



By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe the features and benefits of VMware vRealize Network Insight
• Describe the installation process and requirements 
• Identify the product architecture 
• Demonstrate how to access and navigate various tasks in the vRealize Network Insight user interface 
• List common reference

In VMware vSphere 6.5, Host Profiles are better than ever! See how to create a new Host Profile and how to use advanced editing and copying capabilities now offered in the Web Client.

Quickly See the Major Enhancements to Host Profiles in vSphere 6.5

VMware App Volumes is a real-time application delivery and life cycle management tool. App Volumes integrates with existing VMware end-user-computing solutions, including View virtual desktops in VMware Horizon 7, and RDSH desktops and applications in Horizon 7. This deployment guide offers a high-level overview of App Volumes and its capabilities, and then delves into discussions of architecture, components, how App Volumes works, and implementation requirements.


The discussion includes how to deploy application stacks (AppStacks) and writable volumes, as well as how to plan for storage, optimal performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, and security. The paper ends with currently known best practices.