VMware Validated Designs
Here are the new VMware Validated Designs. Please take a look.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/index.html
Here are the new VMware Validated Designs. Please take a look.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/index.html
Here are the new VMware Visio stencils. Please take a look.
Easy Deploy for NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) Fling is a virtual appliance that helps you deploy Avi in a handful of clicks! This will enable you to leverage the power of multi-cloud application services platform that includes load balancing, web application firewall, container ingress, and application analytics across any cloud. No extensive knowledge required as it’s meant to make demo, training and proof-of-concept (POC) easy.
Features:
NSX-T Data Center 3.2.0 is a major release offering many new features in all the verticals of NSX-T: networking, security, services and onboarding. Here are some of the major enhancements.Switch agnostic distributed security: Ability to extend micro-segmentation to workloads deployed on vSphere networks.
Gateway Security: Enhanced L7 App IDs, Malware Detection and Sandboxing, URL filtering, User-ID firewall, TLS inspection (Tech Preview) and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Service (IDS/IPS).
Enhanced Distributed Security: Malware detection and Prevention, Behavioral IDS/IPS, enhanced application identities for L7 firewall.
Improved integration with NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi): Install and configure NSX ALB (Avi) from NSX-T UI; Migrate NSX for vSphere LB to NSX ALB (Avi).
NSX for vSphere to NSX-T Migration: Major enhancements to the Migration Coordinator to extend coverage of supported NSX for vSphere topologies and provide flexibility on the target NSX-T topologies.
Improved protection against Log4j vulnerability: Updated Apache Log4j to version 2.16 to resolve CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products, please see VMSA-2021-0028.
In addition to these features, many other capabilities are added in every area of the product.
For more details about this new features, please take a look at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.2/rn/vmware-nsxt-data-center-32-release-notes/index.html.
VMware released VMSA-2021-0028 to track the impact of an Apache Software Foundation security advisory for their extremely popular Log4j Java logging component on VMware products and services. These advisories outline critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Log4j component, scoring 10 of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) for all affected VMware products.
This update needs your immediate attention because the log4j component is used by many vendors and software packages, not just in VMware products, but also for all other software in your environment. The updated advisory means that all systems should be reevaluated. Threat intelligence experts across the industry are observing active attacks based on these vulnerabilities, especially against workloads accessible from the Internet.
What is Log4J?
Log4J is an open-source logging framework that developers use to record actions and activities within their applications. It is used by platforms such as: Minecraft, VMware, Elasticsearch, Apple, Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, and Tesla, along with various Apache platforms such as Struts, Druid, ActiveMQ, Flume, Hadoop and Kafka, among many others.
Take a look at the following website to check if patches are already released. Remember, all VMware products are affected and this vulnerability has a rating of 10 in 10.
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html
NSX-T 3.2 should be GA anytime soon and it is one of the largest NSX releases so far. NSX-T 3.2 includes key innovations across multi-cloud security, scale-out networking for containers, VMs, and physical workloads. It also delivers simplified operations that help enterprises achieve a one-click, public cloud experience wherever their workloads are deployed.
Please check the following links.
https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2021/12/nsx-t-3-2-innovations.html/
Please take a look at this fantastic article regarding the usage of VMware Workspace One for employee onboard.
I have seen recently this fling and the output that it produces is very interesting and useful. The vSphere Software Asset Management (vSAM) is a tool that collects and summarizes vSphere product deployment information. It calls on vSphere APIs for deployment data and produces a PDF report that the customer can consult as a part of their infrastructure review and planning process. This lightweight Java application runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS.
Features:
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3 is Generally Available now. Together with the newly branded logo, it brings a significant amount of new features and improvements for our VMware Cloud Providers to deliver even better DR and migration services to their tenants and offer an answer to combat Ransomware.
New features available:
The VMware SASE Platform is the secure access service edge (SASE) platform that converges industry-leading cloud networking and cloud security to deliver flexibility, agility, security, and scale for enterprise of all sizes. The VMware SASE Platform is offered as-a-service, helping offload IT staff from deploying and maintaining WAN/security and saving enterprises operational costs.
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SASE secures the newly distributed workforce and network edge so people, apps and devices can communicate from anywhere. The VMware SASE advantage is a unified edge and cloud service model with a single place to manage business policy, configuration, and monitoring.