Network Virtualization and Security Platform
VMware NSX Data Center is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), delivering networking and security entirely in software, abstracted from the underlying physical infrastructure.
NSX Data Center enables the Virtual Cloud Network, providing pervasive, end-to-end connectivity for your apps and data, wherever they are.
Introduction to NSX Data Center
The Virtual Cloud Network delivers secure, pervasive connectivity for apps and data, wherever they live.
What's New
Enable simple, agile and secure branch office wide area networks.
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USE CASES FOR NSX Data Center
Security
Application-centric security is applied at a granular level to prevent the lateral spread of threats.
Application Continuity
Run your apps over unified, seamless, and resilient networking and security infrastructure.
Automation
Automate networking and security services to remove operational bottlenecks.
Compliance
Reduce scope of compliance by isolating the systems that store, process, or transmit sensitive data.
SPOTLIGHT
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NSX Data Center Offerings
- Standard Edition: Automates IT workflows, bringing agility to the data center network and reducing network operating costs and complexity.
- Advanced Edition: Standard Edition plus a fundamentally more secure data center with micro-segmentation. Helps secure the data center to the highest levels, while automating IT provisioning of security.
- Enterprise Edition: Advanced Edition plus networking and security across multiple domains. Enables the data center network to extend across multiple sites and connect to high-throughput physical workloads.
- Remote Branch Office Edition: Automates and secures workloads in a remote or branch office.
SUCCESS STORIES
Nebraska Medicine
"Cybersecurity is the top priority…NSX was the only solution that would allow us to tailor workflows."
University of New Hampshire
"With NSX today, I can provision a workload faster than I could before."
RESOURCES
Plan & Design
- NSX Quick Start Guide
- VMware NSX-T Reference Design
- VMware NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization Design Guide
- Multi-site Options and Cross-VC NSX Design Guide
- Security for Hyper-Converged Solutions
- NSX Small Data Center Design Guide
- Deploying NSX with Cisco UCS and Nexus 9000 Infrastructure Design Guide
- VMware NSX running on a Cisco ACI Underlay Fabric Design Guide