Logical firewalls

VMware NSX comes with a prepackaged, inbuilt, distributed, kernel-based firewalling. It brings a lot of features to the NSX platform, such as activity monitoring, line rate performance, and many more. These features are in addition to all the basic features a firewall has to offer. We will cover few key benefits or key features logical firewall in NSX has to offer.

Network isolation

Network isolation is one of the key steps in moving towards a secure network. It is the first move in implementing network security and can be used in multiple scenarios, such as separating production network from test or developer network, or meeting the compliance standards. In traditional infrastructures, access control lists along with firewall ...

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