Networking and Security Virtualization VMware NSX

Build a cloud smart network with networking and security that enables consistent policy, operations, and automation across multiple cloud environments.

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Connect and Protect the Multi-Cloud with Ease

Scale & Optimize Your Network with Agility

Simplify operations with a 100% software-defined networking overlay. Gain agility and speed for all your sites and clouds. See everything and ensure consistent infrastructure.

Deliver Self-Service Networking and Security

Deliver the full cloud experience to your developers and application teams. Use VPCs and full-stack automation to speed up network provisioning and cut setup time from months to minutes.

Stop Ransomware with Lateral Security

Achieve granular micro-segmentation and context-aware policies for each workload. Apply advanced security that goes beyond connections to conversations.

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Introducing our new cloud-delivered multi-cloud networking and security SaaS offering for NSX.

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NSX by the Numbers

Leading organizations run NSX to achieve productivity improvements, CapEx and OpEx savings, and improved security posture.

of the Fortune 100 use NSX in their data centers

60%

Average CapEx savings realized by customers using NSX

66%

Average OpEx savings realized by customers using NSX

Numbers based on an internal VMware customer study: DICE ROI and Value Modeling.

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Single-pane Network Management

Manage your entire multi-site network as a single entity with NSX Federation.

NSX for vSphere with Kubernetes

Discover the features that NSX provides for vSphere with Kubernetes.

Multi-Cloud Security with NSX as a service

Multi-Cloud Security Analytics

Learn about multi-cloud security analytics with NSX Intelligence as a service.

Single-pane Network Management

Manage your entire multi-site network as a single entity with NSX Federation.

NSX for vSphere with Kubernetes

Discover the features that NSX provides for vSphere with Kubernetes.

Multi-Cloud Security Analytics

Learn about multi-cloud security analytics with NSX Intelligence as a service.

Key NSX Capabilities

L2-L7 Network Stack and Overlay Services

Efficiently operate and deliver new services in seconds with a highly scalable, automated layer-2 to layer-7 networking, security, and load-balancing platform for any workload.

Network Agility for vSphere Environments

Accelerate networking and security provisioning with the NSX console built directly into vCenter, while providing guided workflows with no changes to existing vSphere networking.

Multi-Site Networking and Security

Manage multiple environments from a single console. Deploy consistent networking and security to keep configuration and operational state synchronized across all sites.

Network and Micro-Segmentation

Easily deploy network and micro-segmentation by defining segments in software—no network changes or traffic hairpinning with discrete appliances required.

Advanced Threat Prevention

Protect against malicious threats and ransomware with technologies such as IDS/IPS, Sandboxing, and NTA/NDR that reduce false positives and accelerate remediation.

Planning, Observability, and Intelligence

Eliminate security blind spots and gain deep insights with SecOps consoles, firewall policy recommendations, and management built into the hypervisor.

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VMware Cross-Cloud Services

VMware NSX is a Security and Networking service of the Cross-Cloud services portfolio that enables secure networking for your multi-cloud environment.

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Solve Your Biggest Networking Challenges

Networking and Security Automation

Accelerate app delivery with blueprints to automate the provisioning and management of networking and security services – consistent across all sites and clouds. Also deliver infrastructure as code.

Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery

Move workloads across all sites and clouds with ease. Simplify data center extension or consolidation. Enable multi-data center pooling. Ensure continuity with streamlined disaster recovery.

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Ransomware Defense

Lock down critical apps, create a logical DMZ, and reduce the attack surface of every workload with lateral security. Enforce a zero-trust ransomware defense across all sites and clouds.

Multi-cloud Networking and Security

Enable pervasive connectivity with advanced security for applications and data across private and public clouds.

Modern Applications Secure Connectivity

Provide full-stack networking and security for your containerized apps and microservices, just like your VMs. Leverage native container networking, micro-segmentation, and observability for Kubernetes.

Networking and Security Automation

Workload Mobility and Disaster Recovery

Move workloads across all sites and clouds with ease. Simplify data center extension or consolidation. Enable multi-data center pooling. Ensure continuity with streamlined disaster recovery.

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Network Security

Ransomware Defense

Lock down critical apps, create a logical DMZ, and reduce the attack surface of every workload with lateral security. Enforce a zero-trust ransomware defense across all sites and clouds.

Multi-cloud Networking and Security

Enable pervasive connectivity with advanced security for applications and data across private and public clouds.

Modern Applications Secure Connectivity

Compare NSX Editions

Professional

For organizations that need agile and automated networking plus micro-segmentation and may have public cloud endpoints.

Advanced

For organizations that need Professional edition capabilities plus advanced networking and security services integrated within a broad ecosystem and may have multiple sites.

Enterprise Plus

For organizations that need the most advanced capabilities NSX has to offer, plus network operations, hybrid cloud mobility and traffic security operations.