Network and Security Virtualization
NSX is a network virtualization platform used in VMware's Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) model, which enables the operational model of the virtual machine to be utilized for network structures.
Network Speed, Agility and Security
Activate your virtual cloud network with NSX. Connect and protect applications in your data center, in your hybrid cloud, and in your container infrastructure. NSX reproduces the entire network model in software, enabling you to create and provision any network topology in seconds and deliver critical applications and services faster and more easily.
NSX is used to ensure and demonstrate operations compliant with numerous regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC, CJIS, DISA STIG, and similar.
The time to define and start transmitting the network topology in which the virtual workload of an application will operate decreases from days to seconds.
Workloads are created independent of the physical network topology and hardware, and can be dynamically moved without physical or geographic boundaries.
NSX provides logical network components and services that ensure end-to-end integrity, with capabilities in logical switching, routing, firewall, load balancing, VPN, quality services, and monitoring.
Advanced security and network services can be provided with third-party solutions within the ecosystem.
High-Level Security
NSX can recreate the entire network model using only the software layer, over and over again. It enables different network topologies, from the simplest to the most complex, to be set up in seconds. As a result, IT administrators can implement networks with very different characteristics, a wide range of service combinations, and a much higher level of security.
Hardware Independent Network
With NSX, network functions (switching, routing, firewall) are provided in a distributed manner across the entire data center structure, embedded in the hypervisor. This model yields a "Network Hypervisor" layer that functions as a platform for virtual networks and services. Just like virtual machines, virtual network topologies are defined and managed completely independently from the physical hardware that forms the infrastructure.