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Steps for Creating Services and Groups

Writer's picture: Mohammed BilalMohammed Bilal

You can refer to the below tasks to Create services and groups and apply the services and groups to firewall rules:

  • Create Services

  • Create Groups

  • Apply Groups and Services to Firewall Rules

  • Create a Firewall Rule for Amazon EFS and Amazon RDS

Create Services:

  • In the VMware Cloud console browser tab, navigate to the SDDC summary page

  • Click the Networking & Security tab

  • Under Inventory, click Services

  • Create a custom service for Amazon EFS connectivity using port 2049

    • Click ADD SERVICE

    • Enter AWS-EFS for the Name of the service

  • Click Set Service Entries

The Set Service Entries window appears

  • On the Port-Protocol tab, click ADD SERVICE ENTRY

  • Enter EFS for the Service Entry Name

  • In the Service Type drop-down menu, select TCP

  • Leave the Source Ports text box empty

  • In the Destination Ports text box, enter 2049

  • Click APPLY

  • Click SAVE


Create Groups:


You create inventory groups and add membership criteria

  • In the VMware Cloud console browser tab, navigate to the SDDC summary page, if necessary

  • On the Networking & Security tab for the SDDC, click Groups under Inventory

  • On the Compute Groups tab, create a group associated with the on-premises management network

    • Click ADD GROUP

    • Enter on-prem-management for the Group Name

  • Click Set Members

The Select Members window opens

  • Click the IP Addresses tab

  • Enter 172.20.10.0/24 for the IP address

  • Click APPLY

  • Click SAVE

  • Create a group associated with the VMware Cloud segment network

    • Click ADD GROUP

    • Enter vmc-subnet-1 as the Group Name

  • Click Set Members

The Select Members window opens

  • Click the Members tab

  • In the Category drop-down menu, select Segments

  • Select the sddc-cgw-network-1 check box

  • Click APPLY

  • Click SAVE

  • Create a group associated with the Photo-App-01 virtual machine.

    • Click ADD GROUP

    • Enter Photo-App as the Group Name

  • Click Set Members

The Select Members window opens

  • Click the Members tab

  • In the Category drop-down menu, select Virtual Machines

  • Select the Photo-App-01 virtual machine check box

  • Click APPLY

  • Click SAVE

Apply Groups and Services to Firewall Rules:


You apply groups and services to compute firewall rules


  • In the VMware Cloud console browser tab, navigate to the SDDC summary page, if necessary

  • On the Networking & Security tab for the SDDC, click Gateway Firewall under Security

  • On the Compute Gateway tab, edit the Allow-All compute gateway firewall rule

    • In the Name text box, click Allow-All and enter Allow-VPN as the new rule name

  • In the Sources text box for the Allow-VPN rule, click the edit icon

The Set Source window appears

  • Select the on-prem-management check box and click APPLY

  • In the Destinations text box, click the edit icon

The Set Destination window appears

  • Select the vmc-subnet-1 check box and click APPLY

  • In the Services text box, click the edit icon

The Set Services window appears

  • Select the ICMP ALL, SSH, and HTTP check-boxes

  • You can use the Apply Filter text field to search for the services

  • Click APPLY

  • Click PUBLISH to save the modifications to the firewall rule


Create a Firewall Rule for Amazon EFS and Amazon RDS:


You create a new firewall rule to allow traffic from Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) to the virtual machine.


  • On the Network & Security tab for the SDDC, click Gateway Firewall under Security and open the Compute Gateway tab, if not already open

  • Create a new firewall rule to allow traffic from the Photo-App-01 VM to Amazon EFS and Amazon RDS (MySQL)

    • Click ADD RULE

    • Enter AWS-Services in the New Rule text box

  • In the Sources text box, click the edit icon

The Set Source window appears

  • Select the Photo-App check box and click APPLY

  • In the Destinations text box, click the edit icon

The Set Destination window appears

  • Select the Connected VPC Prefixes check box and click APPLY

  • In the Services text box, click the edit icon

The Set Services window appears

  • Select the AWS-EFS and MYSQL check boxes

You can use the Apply Filter text field to search for the services

  • Click APPLY

  • Click PUBLISH to save the modifications to the firewall rule


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