Configuring the NSX firewalls for VCF for VPC instances
Before you configure the VMware NSX firewalls, review the information in NSX firewall add-ons.
- From the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF for VPC from the left navigation pane.
- In the instances table, click the instance to configure the firewalls for.
- On the Access Information tab, under Management domain, use the NSX-T admin account for VMware NSX-T Data Center to log in to the VMware NSX-T console.
- To configure the gateway firewall, see Gateway Firewall.
- To configure the distributed firewall, see Distributed Firewall.
IBM Cloud® Security Groups for VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) also provide network security and act as a virtual firewall for your Virtual Server Instances and Bare Metal Servers in the IBM Cloud VPC environment by managing east-west and north-south network traffic.
Security Groups for VPC provides a convenient way to define and apply rules that establish filtering to a target of a resource, based on protocols, ports, and IP addresses. For more information, see About security groups.