Use case – Augment an existing VDI deployment using VMware Horizon with NSX and secure traffic between each system and providing isolation for desktop pools In a later blog we’ll also explore how Identity-based Firewall in NSX can help as well. There are other ways to address this problem with other products and utilizing a single pool but in this case, we’re focusing on customers with this model. There could be a need to create separate pools for each of these different types of users. Healthcare organizations also had different types of uses for example, clinicians and HR users. We’ll take the top two VDI software providers, Citrix and Horizon and show that it doesn’t matter which one a customer is using, both can be secured in an identical fashion. Several times in discussions, my Healthcare customers were using one or more technologies as they transitioned from one to the other or as part of a legacy acquisition. By blocking unnecessary communications between these systems, we can ensure that if one desktop is compromised, could transition and compromise other desktops. These use cases for NSX are quite simple and easy to implement. The security posture must be able to scale up and down in a similar fashion. Not only that, but those VDI systems could scale up or down as demanded.
These systems were fully allowed to communicate with each other regardless of an actual need to. Speaking with my Healthcare customers running VDI systems, there wasn’t many security-based controls to protect traffic between each desktop. Each of these use cases providing a Healthcare organization a different business value depending on their needs.Īs we start to break each use case down, the first one we’ll be looking at is around Micro-segmentation of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment that a Healthcare organization may run. In the last post we broke down each of the six use cases that the VMware NSX platform can provide for Secure End-User computing environments.
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