VMware NSX Cookbook

Creating a Security Group using Security Tag as the Dynamic Membership Criteria

In this section, we will create a security group, SG-Web-Tier, for the web VM, use dynamic membership to include Security Tag ST.Web, and tag web-01a and web-02a VMs with ST.Web:

1. Similar to the steps covered previously, create a new security group, in this case SG-Web-Tier, optionally input the Description, and click Next.
2. We will use dynamic membership and include a VM that has Security Tag, Contains, ST.Web. Click Next until we get to Ready to complete if we want to review all the settings first, or go straight to Finish:

3. To create and assign a Security Tag ...