Announcing General Availability of VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.2

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Here are the list of features in NSX 6.4.2

1. MultiCast Routing support

VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.2, NSX Logical Routers now have the capability of routing IPv4 multicast traffic.

2. New Layer 7 Application Context

VMware has been taking security to the next level with Context-Aware Micro-Segmentation, better securing application using the full context of the application. This latest release includes the following new Layer 7 Application Context:

• EPIC – Epic EMR is an electronic medical records application that provides patient care and healthcare information.
• MSSQL – Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database.
• BLAST – A remote access protocol that compresses, encrypts, and encodes computing experiences at a data center and transmits it across any standard IP network for VMware Horizon desktops

3. Firewall Rule Hit Count and Firewall Section Locking
Looking for a way to monitor rule usage and easily identify unused rules for clean-up? NSX 6.4.2 has enhanced the firewall rule table to display total rule hits, as well as information on when the rule was first hit, and when the rule was most recently hit.

4.NSX Application Rule Manager – Scale Improvements

NSX Application Rule Manager takes the allowed flows observed in the network and pushes policies directly into the distributed firewall within a few clicks. In NSX 6.4.2, we have improved scale and visibility to 100 vNICs per session, further simplifying the process of creating security groups and whitelisting firewall rules for existing applications.

5. Operational Enhancements

Some additional enhancements include:

• Authentication & Authorization: Introduces 2 new roles (Network Engineer and Security Engineer). Adds ability to enable/disable basic authentication.
• NSX Scale Dashboard: Provides visibility into 25 new metrics. Adds ability to edit usage warning thresholds and filter for objects exceeding limits.
• NSX Controller Cluster Settings: Specify common settings (DNS, NTP, Syslog) to apply to NSX Controller Cluster.

VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.2 Release Notes