Product Information
VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the SDDC, delivering the operational model of a virtual machine for entire networks. With NSX, network functions including switching, routing, and firewalling are embedded in the hypervisor and distributed across the environment. This effectively creates a network hypervisor that acts as a platform for virtual networks and services. Similar to the operational model of virtual machines, virtual networks are programmatically provisioned and managed independently of underlying hardware. NSX reproduces the entire network model in software, enabling any network topology - from simple to complex multitier networks - to be created and provisioned in seconds. Users can create multiple virtual networks with diverse requirements, leveraging a combination of the services offered via NSX to build inherently more secure environments.
- Network virtualization and the SDDC
VMware NSX delivers a completely different operational model for networking that forms the foundation of the SDDC. Because NSX builds networks in software, data center operators can achieve levels of agility, security, and economics that were previously unreachable with physical networks. NSX provides a complete set of logical networking elements and services - including logical switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, VPN, QoS, and monitoring. - Automation
NSX addresses the challenge of lengthy network provisioning, configuration errors, and costly processes by automating labor-intensive, error-prone tasks. NSX creates networks in software, eliminating bottlenecks associated with hardware based networks. - Application continuity
Since NSX abstracts networking from the underlying hardware, networking and security policies are attached to their associated workloads. Organizations can easily replicate entire application environments to remote data centers for disaster recovery, move them from one corporate data center to another, or deploy them into a hybrid cloud environment. - Security
NSX enables organizations to divide the data center into distinct security segments logically, down to the level of the individual workload - irrespective of the workload's network subnet or VLAN. IT teams can then define security policies and controls for each workload based on dynamic security groups, which ensures immediate responses to threats inside the data center and enforcement down to the individual virtual machine.