NSX Cloud Architecture and Components

NSX Cloud integrates the NSX-T Data Center core components with your public cloud to provide network and security across your implementations.

Figure 1. NSX Cloud Architecture

Core Components

The core NSX Cloud components are:

• NSX Manager for the management plane with policy-based routing, role-based access control (RBAC), control plane and runtime states defined.

• Cloud Service Manager (CSM) for integration with NSX Manager to provide public cloud-specific information to the management plane.

• Public Cloud Gateway (PCG) for connectivity to the NSX management and control planes, NSX Edge gateway services, and for API-based communications with the public cloud entities.

• NSX Tools functionality that provides NSX-managed datapath for workload VMs.