VMware NSX Cookbook

Creating a Security Group using Dynamic Membership

In this section, we will create a security group, SG-App-Tier, for the App VM and use dynamic membership to include the app-01a VM as the member:

1. Similar to the steps covered previously, create a new security group, in this example SG-App-Tier, optionally input the Description, and click Next or click the desired way to do security group membership.
2. We will use dynamic membership and include a VM that has VM Name, Contains, app. For example, we can add additional criteria under one Membership criteria; in this example we are only interested in Entity Belongs to a specific cluster RegionA01-COMP01. We can match Any or All of the criteria we defined; we are interested in using All in this ...