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Edouard Topin's Blog

Topic: nsx

All articles tagged “nsx”.

4 articles

2026

  1. 14 min read

    vDefend Distributed Firewall: zero trust at the workload level

    Least-privilege policy per vNIC, built on dynamic groups and tags rather than IP addresses — and the honest boundary where federated identity stops and the firewall starts.

  2. 9 min read

    Mixed Tenancy 9.1: Designing the Bridge Between VM Apps and All Apps

    Compare shared-cluster, separate-cluster, and dedicated-infrastructure designs for controlled transitional coexistence.

  3. 9 min read

    VCF 9.1 — Networking & scale: EVPN, VPC L4 and observability

    EVPN-VXLAN with the physical fabric, L4 Load Balancer and IPSec VPN on VPC, SDDC Manager sync, bare-metal edge import, multi-NIC VKS and network observability.

  4. 8 min read

    Networking in VCF 9: from vDS to pod, the packet path explained

    How a packet travels from the virtual switch to a VKS pod — vDS, NSX segments, T0/T1, NSX ALB and their trade-offs. The architect's networking guide.