To get started with PowerNSX, we need to get PowerShell installed on our Linux system. As on my system I’m using Arch Linux, this guide will be mostly based on this distribution. If you are intrested in getting PowerShell on a diferent Linux flavour, please download the relevant package from this repository and process it according to your distro ways…

Setting up VPN made simple through VMware NSX! If you ever had to deal with setting up a proper VPN environment using regular tools (OpenVPN Server, Fortigate, SonicWALL etc.), you are going to love it how simple it is (yet secure!) to manage your virtual private network(s) using the networking powerhouse (swiss-knife?) VMware NSX.

VMware NSX, formerly known as Nicira NVP (Network Virtualization Platform) is essentialy what we’ve been doing to servers for years: abstracting the physical layer from the logical one - or in other words - virtualizing the network in such a way that all you end up with is software running on the top of hypervisors which can be dynamically configured and updated.