The NSXninjas Podcast

Want to hear how a real-life NSXninja leverages NSX, vRealize Automation and Avi to deploy software networking and security services for a global provider? Look no further, as Dan Deane from DxC Technologies breaks down the walls of organizational process and explains how he obtains buy-in and builds consensus inside and amongst business groups to replace existing legacy services with software defined offerings.An in-depth discussion of all aspects of the adoption, how to create and offer process improvements with some great ideas on how to accomplish the same in your organization.Dan also presented at VMworld 2018 with Nimish Desai from the VMware NSBU and if you haven't seen it, make sure to check that out in the show reference links listed below.Host: Erik HindererCo-host: Jim StreitSpecial Guest: Dan Deane, DxC Technologies VMworld 2018 video: https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2018/videoplayer/22675Next-Generation Reference Design with NSX-T Data Center: Part 2 (NET1562BU)Dan Deane, Solutions Lead, DXCNimish Desai, Director, VMwareType: Breakout SessionVMware site video: https://vimeo.com/jcutfilms/review/322077616/b68e09cc1d

Do you like a good story? How about a story of a state municipality reaching out to a VMW team for help to enable 8,000 workers w/ #WFH access and how they worked together to build a simple, secure and scalable load balancing solution in days?Listen in as we have special guests, Kevin Moats and Ralph Stoker to hear how they helped a client take a Horizon PoC environment leveraging the users existing physical desktops, into production using the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI) to support the 8,000 users in 24 hours.Host: Erik HindererCo-host: Jim StreitSpecial Guests: Ralph Stoker, Kevin MoatsBig shout out to the following people who helped in this project and acted selflessly, when a friend asked for assistance in a time of need. You are all truly EPIC2.Matt Honigford – Identified the need and reached out to VMware resourcesBill Zulkosky - Sponsored the AVI technical assistanceRobert Miller - Assisted with the load balancing design and deploymentRalph Stoker - Lead the network requirements / AVI setup and Horizon network linkBob Johnston - Lead the design and implementation of the Horizon expansion and physical desktop agent deploymentKevin Moats - Assisted with the network requirements / AVI setup and Horizon network link (Acted as project manager between Horizon and network teams)

In this episode of The NSXninjas Podcast, special guest Geoff Wilmington talks "Work from Home" use-cases for NSX security and how organizations can quickly implement these security postures without changes to the underlying infrastructure to provide simple, dynamic, scalable security for organizations of all sizes.- Host: Erik Hinderer -- Co-host: Jim Streit -- Special Guest: Geoff Wilmington, NSX Technical Product Manager -

In this episode of The NSXninjas Podcast, special guest and subject matter expert, Andrew Voltmer joins us to discuss NSX-v to NSX-T migration options, methods and best practices. If you're planning a migration or have one on the horizon, this show is a must. Not to mention, Andrew shares an enlightening and worthy PSA at the end of the show, so make sure to listen in and give it some consideration. We're all in this together!- Host: Erik Hinderer -- Co-host: Jim Streit -- Special Guest: Andrew Voltmer, NSX Product Manager for VMware -

In this episode of The NSXninjas Podcast, special guest Marcos Hernandez breaks down NSX Intelligence, the business problems it solves and how AI/ML provides the fastest path to achieve and maintain security compliance with micro-segmentation.

In this episode of The NSXninjas Podcast we welcome special guest Niran Even-Chen as he breaks down NSX Service Mesh, Multicloud and what he's seeing out in the field. An incredibly thoughtful discussion on how the abstraction of services from multicloud environments is the next evolutionary step and how service meshes are being used for shared services among telcos for NFV and 5G solutions.Twitter:@erikhinderer @jimstreit @niranec

Our mission here on the NSXninjas podcast is to help share NSX field knowledge and lessons learned with the greater community. Each week, we’ll be hosting special guests from VMware and from the expert community, with lessons learned from the field and insights into all things surrounding NSX.#runNSX