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June 25, 2019 | by frank | No comments

Introducing the NSX-T Policy API

With the release of NSX-T 2.4 provided a major feature addition in the form of the Policy or Simplified API. This API was created to combine the multiple different API calls that was needed to create specific components of an NSX-T deployment into a single call. For example, if I was to create a logical […]

January 27, 2019January 28, 2019 | by frank | No comments

Intro to the NSX-T API with Postman

NSX-T API Overview NSX-T has been designed with an API first development strategy utilizing open API specifications. This allows for consumption of the API to be utilized using any number of scripting languages that are supported by tools such as Swagger Codegen. This will enable network engineers, cloud engineers, and others to rapidly deploy the […]

Frank Snyder

Frank Snyder is a Sr. Systems Engineer within the Network and Security Business Unit of VMware. He has over 10 years of networking experience working in both an enterprise and service provider settings. He is focused on bringing next generation virtual networking technology to enterprises and service providers that are in the process of a software defined data center transformation.

Frank specializes in traditional and container networking as well as network automation. He emphasizes the need to wrap automation frameworks around day 1 and day 2 tasks to simplify change procedures and reduce outage risks within an organization.