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Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Configuring a VM-specific firewall


Rules created for a VM only apply to that particular virtual machine. Even when the virtual machine is moved to a different node, the firewall rule follows the VM throughout the cluster. There are no rules cascading from this zone. Under the VM firewall feature, we can create rules, aliases, and IPSets, but we cannot create a security group. The firewall management is the same for both the KVM virtual machines and LXC containers. We can go to the firewall feature of a VM by navigating to the VM | Firewall menu:

Creating VM firewall rules

Creating new rules for a VM is identical to the rule creation process that we have already seen in the Configuring the Datacenter firewall through the CLI section earlier in this chapter. Besides creating rules from scratch, we can also assign predefined rules in the form of a security group to a VM. The preceding screenshot shows that our example VM has three firewall rules to allow standard web server and HTTPS traffic...

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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
Read more about Wasim Ahmed