Stateful NAT in NSX – Part 2: Stateless Gateway Firewall

Leading up to today’s discussion, we previously reviewed the differences between stateful and stateless firewalls , followed by how stateful NAT services operate in conjunction with a stateful Gateway Firewall. While the expectation when using stateful NAT services in NSX is that the Gateway Firewall is enabled with a stateful policy, we wanted to showContinueContinue reading “Stateful NAT in NSX – Part 2: Stateless Gateway Firewall”

Stateful NAT in NSX – Part 1: T0/T1 Gateway Firewall

In our previous post, we detailed the differences between stateful and stateless firewalls. In today’s post, we’ll investigate how stateful NSX NAT services function in conjunction with the stateful firewall running on a Tier-0 or Tier-1, which is known as the ‘Gateway Firewall’. Note: As mentioned in prior posts, we won’t be covering the newerContinueContinue reading “Stateful NAT in NSX – Part 1: T0/T1 Gateway Firewall”

NAT in NSX – Introduction

When it comes to utilizing Network Address Translation (NAT) in NSX, configuring NAT can seem both overly simple and extremely complex. In this series, we want to provide an overall look at NAT within NSX by narrowing the scope of conversation to relatively specific use cases in order to better inform on how the solutionContinueContinue reading “NAT in NSX – Introduction”