NSX Cloud integrates the NSX-T Data Center core components with your public cloud to provide network and security across your implementations.
Core Components
The core NSX Cloud components are:
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NSX Manager for the management plane with policy-based routing, role-based access control (RBAC), control plane and runtime states defined.
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Cloud Service Manager (CSM) for integration with NSX Manager to provide public cloud-specific information to the management plane.
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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.
