Networking.
- March 5, 2026
NSX-v to NSX-T Migration: The Playbook Nobody Gives You
Having led this migration at enterprise scale, here's the real playbook — including the gotchas that aren't in VMware's documentation.
- March 7, 2019
NSX-V Edge Services Gateways: The Part That Trips Up First-Timers
If the Distributed Firewall is NSX-V’s most-used feature, the Edge Services Gateway (ESG) is its most confusing. ESGs are software-defined appliances that provide routing, NAT, load balancing, …
- February 14, 2019
NSX-V and Physical Firewalls: Finding the Right Boundary
Organizations deploying NSX-V often already have physical perimeter firewalls — Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, or Check Point. A common design question: what does NSX do, and what does the physical …
- September 20, 2018
NSX-V First Deployment: What to Actually Prepare For
NSX-V (for vSphere) is VMware’s software-defined networking platform for vSphere environments. It decouples network functions — switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing — from physical …
- April 20, 2016
ESXi Networking Basics: vSwitches, Port Groups, and Where People Go Wrong
VMware’s virtual networking model is one of the most powerful things about the platform and one of the most common sources of misconfiguration in smaller deployments. The concepts are learnable …