You can prepare ESXi, KVM hosts and physical servers as NSX-T Data Center transport nodes. Before you prepare KVM or physical servers for NSX-T Data Center networking, ensure the required third-party packages are installed on hosts.
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Manual Installation of NSX-T Data Center Kernel Modules NSX-T Data Center Fabric > Nodes > Hosts > Add UI or the POST /api/v1/fabric/nodes API, you can install NSX-T Data Center kernel modules manually from the hypervisor command line. Install Third-Party Packages on a KVM Host Preparing Physical Servers as NSX-T Data Center Transport Nodes NSX-T Data Center on a physical server (also known as Bare Metal server), you must install supported third-party packages. Preparing ESXi and KVM Hosts as Transport Nodes 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.Deploy a Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T on Hosts Running N-VDS Switches NSX Manager , host transport nodes, and NSX Edge VMs on a single cluster. Each host in the cluster provides two physical NICs that are configured for NSX-T .Managing Transport Nodes
