NSX-V Micro-Segmentation: Applying Distributed Firewall in Practice
The distributed firewall is the feature that justifies NSX-V for most mid-size organizations. Traditional network firewalls sit at the perimeter or at layer boundaries — north-south traffic is controlled, but east-west traffic between VMs on the same network or VLAN moves freely. NSX’s DFW enforces policy at the vNIC level, so every packet between VMs … Read more