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neel_mani
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‎10-10-2017 03:12 AM
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NSX installation steps.

Folks, we have finished preparing hosts for NSL and the status shows as installed and Firewall ready. How do we confirm which vmNIC is this tied to?

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smitmartijn
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‎10-10-2017 05:28 AM
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If you don't mean the ESXi VTEPs but the "where the firewall is attached" - the answer is everywhere. To be more specific, the NSX firewall ties itself to the vNIC of any virtual machine on that ESXi host. It does not function as a firewall to protect the ESXi host management interface (ESXi has had a firewall for quite some time), but it protects the VMs located on the ESXi host.

For that lack of access to my own image library, here's an example: http://lostdomain.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/VMware-Distributed-Services.png  where the grey block is an ESXi host and the NSX firewall is depicted on each vNIC of each VM.

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amolnjadhav
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‎10-10-2017 04:59 AM
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Hi Neel,

  Do you mean vmnic and vmkNIC "vtep" ?

   vmnicX you can see from DVS section and VMKNIC is visible in Logical Network preparation section, Please see the below screen-shot :

Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you think your query have been answered correctly. Regards Amol Jadhav VCP NSXT | VCP NSXV | VCIX6-NV | VCAP-DCA | CCNA | CCNP - BSCI
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smitmartijn
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‎10-10-2017 05:28 AM
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If you don't mean the ESXi VTEPs but the "where the firewall is attached" - the answer is everywhere. To be more specific, the NSX firewall ties itself to the vNIC of any virtual machine on that ESXi host. It does not function as a firewall to protect the ESXi host management interface (ESXi has had a firewall for quite some time), but it protects the VMs located on the ESXi host.

For that lack of access to my own image library, here's an example: http://lostdomain.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/VMware-Distributed-Services.png  where the grey block is an ESXi host and the NSX firewall is depicted on each vNIC of each VM.

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