An administrator has defined a security policy that needs to be applied to dozens of VMs.
What is the most efficient way the administrator can perform this?
An administrator has defined a security policy that needs to be applied to dozens of VMs.
What is the most efficient way the administrator can perform this?
The most efficient way to apply a security policy to dozens of VMs is to categorize the VMs and associate the category with the policy. This method allows for easy management and updates as VMs can be dynamically associated with or removed from the policy through their category. Unlike selecting individual VMs or using scripts, which can be error-prone and less scalable, categories provide a flexible and scalable way to manage security policies across multiple VMs.
Reference: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Flow-Guide-v6_6:mul-security-policy-model-c.html
All the entities in an application security policy are identified by the categories to which they belong and not by their IP address, VLAN, or other network attributes. After a VM is associated with a category and the category is specified in a security policy, traffic associated with the VM is monitored even if it migrates to another network or changes its IP address.
B. Apply a category to the VMs, and associate the category with the policy.