Preparing ESXi and KVM Hosts as Transport Nodes

After you create transport zones, IP pools, uplink profiles for transport nodes, prepare a host as a transport node. An ESXi, KVM, or bare metal (physical server) can be prepared as a transport node. Only ESXi hosts support both N-VDS and vSphere Distributed Switch (NSX Switch in vCenter Server). KVMs and physical servers only support the N-VDS host switch type.