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Introduction

VMware NSX-T™ Data Center provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments. It focuses on providing networking, security, automation, and operational simplicity for emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoint environments and technology stacks.

VMware NSX

VMware NSX is a network virtualization and security platform that enables the virtual cloud network, a software-defined approach to networking that extends across data centers, clouds and application frameworks.

VMware NSX supports the following infrastructure types.

• Multi-cloud environments
• On-premises data centers
• Bare metal servers
• Containerized workloads

Benefits of NSX-T

The main benefit is that NSX-T can be deployed in heterogeneous environments with a variety of components. NSX-T is not limited to vCenter deployments. You can deploy multiple vCenter servers and use a single NSX Manager as a unified control plane for your virtual network. Alternatively, you can choose not to deploy vCenter at all and instead select ESXi as the operating system in the NSX-T GUI.

NSX-T Main Components:

The following are the primary components of VMware NSX-T:

• NSX-T Manager: provides graphical user interface (GUI) and RESTful API for creating, configuring, and monitoring NSX-T components, such as segments and gateways.

• NSX-T Controller: they are responsible for the programmatic deployment of virtual networks across the entire NSX-T architecture, and control the virtual networks and overlay transport tunnels.

• NSX-T Edges: provides routing services and connectivity to networks that are external to the NSX-T deployment.

• Logical Firewall: NSX-T handles traffic in and out of the network according to firewall rules.

• Logical Routers (Gateways): NSX-T Gateways provide North-South connectivity so that workloads can access external networks and East-West connectivity between different logical networks.

• Transport Zone: A transport zone defines a collection of hosts that can communicate with each other across a physical network infrastructure.

To help you get started, here’s what you can do next:

To explore the metrics monitored by this integration, see Supported Metrics and Default Monitoring Configuration.

To configure the integration, see Working with Vmware Nsx-T app.

Supported Target Versions

• Application validated against target versions 3.2.0 and 4.0.0
• REST API version using 3.2.0
• REST API version 4.0.0

Resource Hierarchy

The following is the resource hierarchy.

NsxT Manager Cluster

      → NsxT Manager (i.e, nodes)

      → NsxT Edge Cluster

            → NsxT Logical Router

                 → NsxT Firewall

      → NsxT Transport Zone

            → NsxT Transport Node (i.e, Host(ESXi) nodes & Edge nodes)

                 → NsxT Edge Physical Network Interface

                 → NsxT Host Physical Network Interface

                 → NsxT Virtual Machine (i.e, Host & Edge VMs)

            → NsxT Logical Switch

Version History