IT organizations have gained significant benefits as a direct result of server virtualization. Server consolidation reduced
physical complexity, increased operational efficiency, and the ability to dynamically re-purpose underlying resources to
quickly and optimally meet the needs of increasingly dynamic business applications are just a handful of the gains that
have already been realized.
Now, VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture is extending virtualization technologies across the
entire physical data center infrastructure. VMware NSX, the network virtualization platform, is a key product in the
SDDC architecture. With VMware NSX, virtualization now delivers for networking what it has already delivered for
compute and storage.
In much the same way that server virtualization programmatically creates, snapshots, deletes
and restores software-based virtual machines (VMs), VMware NSX network virtualization programmatically creates,
snapshots, deletes, and restores software-based virtual networks.
The result is a completely transformative approach to
networking that not only enables data center managers to achieve orders of magnitude better agility and economics, but
also allows for a vastly simplified operational model for the underlying physical network.
With the ability to be deployed
on any IP network, including both existing traditional networking models and next generation fabric architectures from
any vendor, NSX is a completely non-disruptive solution. In fact, with NSX, the physical network infrastructure you
already have is all you need to deploy a software-defined data center.
This document is targeted toward virtualization and network architects interested in deploying VMware® NSX network
virtualization solution in a vSphere environment.
