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Another year has gone…bye 2016, welcome 2017! Looking back at 2016: I travelled a little more than 100,000 km I had the chance to fly over to the US seven times, essentially to Palo Alto and Austin I attended 2 VMworld (and my first VMworld US in Las Vegas) I had my first experience of public speaking in front of a large audience (> 600 people) ...

I wondered this morning what I learned new in 2019? My brain had a productive year in learning new technologies and tech skills, and I tried to summarize the 6 major ones here.

Although a recurrent request, the use of Open VM Tools on guest or workload virtual machines has never been validated with NSX Distributed Firewall. It got quite unnoticed, but a small sentence in the NSX for vSphere 6.3.2 Release Notes changed the game: **Starting in NSX 6.3.2, Open VM Tools is supported with Distributed Firewall.** In NSX, VMware Tools are required to translate vCenter objects into IP. Indeed, the underlying NSX distributed firewall rules configured within the kernel are IP-based, despite being abstracted as objects at the configuration layer so it is a requirement to run VMware tools in all virtual machines so their addresses are reported into vCenter. ...