Hello. We are trying to achieve the following: traffic between hosts (a
bunch of VMs, actually) has to be proctected by a firewall, but these
hosts are located in the same L2 VLAN and use a matching L3 addressing
subnet. The problem is not that we si...
So the VMware NSX can do L4 firewalling by itself? How complex is the
management of this feature? Let's say the UTM functions are not our no.
1 priority, would a NSX only solution be far less complex to maintain &
troubleshoot than a NSX+VMX one?
Thanks for the advice, so the NSX would be a useful solution at the
minimum and VMX as some sort of an add-on. I'll try getting a demo of
VMX and see how useful it is and how well it does it's job.
Hi, lobstercreed! Thanks for the idea, so the east-west segmentation
should be done with VMware NSX. Does it even support any basic
firewalling at all? There is also a product called Fortigate-VMX that
supposedly enables you to write Fortigate-like p...
