To perform the NSX Intelligence activation and use its features, your system environment must meet the license, system, and software requirements. You also must use the required NSX-T Data Center built-in user role.
License Requirements
- To activate, configure, and use NSX Intelligence, you need one of the following licenses to be valid and activated.
- NSX-T Evaluation
- NSX-T Enterprise Plus
- NSX Data Center Evaluation
- NSX Data Center Enterprise Plus
- NSX Distributed Firewall
- NSX Distributed Firewall with Threat Prevention
- NSX Distributed Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
- NSX Data Center Advanced or NSX-T Advanced with one of the following Threat Prevention Add-On licenses
- NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
- NSX Threat Prevention Add-On for Distributed Firewall
- NSX Advanced Threat Prevention Add-On for NSX Distributed Firewall, NSX Data Center Advanced, or NSX Data Center Enterprise Plus
- To use the NSX Suspicious Traffic feature, a valid license equivalent to an NSX Distributed Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention Edition license is required during your NSX Manager session. See VMware Knowledge Base article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87077 for information on licensing editions required for specific NSX Intelligence features and other NSX security features.
System Requirements
Because the VMware NSX® Application Platform hosts the NSX Intelligence feature beginning with version 3.2, you must meet the minimum NSX Application Platform system requirements needed to activate the NSX Intelligence feature. For more information, see the "NSX Application Platform System Requirements" topic in the Deploying and Managing the VMware NSX Application Platform documentation that is delivered with the NSX-T Data Center 3.2 or later. The document is delivered in the VMware NSX Documentation set.
For the NSX Application Platform form factors required for activating the NSX Intelligence feature, see the information in the following "Software Requirements" section.
Software Requirements
- NSX-T Data Center 3.2 or later must be installed. See the NSX-T Data Center Installation Guide documentation that is included with the VMware NSX Documentation set. Select the folder for the specific NSX-T Data Center version that you plan to install and locate the NSX-T Data Center Installation Guide.
- NSX Application Platform must be deployed using the NSX Manager 3.2 or later user interface.
To be able to activate NSX Intelligence 3.2 or later, you must select one of the following form factors during the NSX Application Platform deployment.
- Advanced form factor when deploying the NSX Application Platform for a production environment.
- Evaluation form factor for a non-production environment for use in evaluations and demonstrations only.
User Role Requirement
To activate, back up, restore, and upgrade NSX Intelligence, you must use an account with the built-in NSX-T Enterprise Admin role when using the NSX Manager user interface to perform the administrative tasks.
