NSX Editions
NSX Networking for VMware Cloud Foundation
For organizations who need workload connectivity as part of VMware Cloud Foundation. This edition is provided as part of the VMware Cloud Foundation suite and is not sold as a stand-alone product.
VMware vDefend Firewall
VMware vDefend Firewall is a software-defined Layer 2-7 firewall purpose-built to secure virtualized workloads in a private cloud. It provides stateful firewalling capabilities that can be used by organizations to protect against the lateral movement of threats. VMware vDefend Firewall is available in two form factors: a Distributed Firewall that can be deployed at each vSphere workload and a Gateway Firewall that can be deployed on a vSphere host, either as a Virtual Machine (VM) or as an ISO image on a physical server.
Requires purchase of NSX Networking for VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention
VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) is a software-defined Layer 2–7 firewall purpose-built to secure virtualized workloads in a private cloud. It provides stateful firewalling with threat prevention capabilities that protect organizations against advanced threats. ATP combines multiple detection technologies—Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (IDS/IPS), Network Sandboxing, and Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)—with aggregation, correlation, and context engines from Network Detection and Response (NDR). Requires purchase of NSX Networking for VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention Add-On
This add-on edition to allow customers to purchase advanced threat prevention functionality and move from VMware vDefend Firewall to VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention. With the purchase of this add-on a customer who had VMware vDefend Firewall will have the equivalent features of VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention.
NSX Licensing Model
Each edition of NSX is offered in various types of license models. This includes the following:
License Type |
Description |
|---|---|
Perpetual License |
Perpetual licenses activated by license key. |
On-premises Subscription |
Subscription licenses activated by license key. Entitlement terminates upon end of subscription. |
The license metrics available for NSX editions are as follows:
Metric |
Description |
|---|---|
CPU |
Entitlement based on CPU socket. |
Core |
Entitlement based on CPU core. |
Concurrent User |
Entitlement based on concurrent user. |
Virtual Machine |
Entitlement based on virtual machine. |
Edition |
Perpetual License |
On-premises Subscription |
|---|---|---|
NSX On-premises Subscription Editions |
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NSX Networking for VMware Cloud Foundation |
None |
Per Core |
VMware vDefend Firewall |
None |
Per Core |
VMware vDefend Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention |
None |
Per Core |
VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention Add-On |
None |
Per Core |
NSX Editions No Longer Offered for Sale
The following editions are no longer offered for sale. Customers can upgrade these older editions to currently offered editions.
Edition |
End of Sale |
License Types |
Metric |
Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
NSX for vSphere |
May 2016 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU |
Convert existing licenses to NSX Enterprise and optionally upgrade to NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Multi-Hypervisor |
2015 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Virtual Machine |
Convert existing licenses to NSX Enterprise and optionally upgrade to NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Standard (obsolete edition) |
June 2018 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU |
Upgrade to NSX Professional, NSX Advanced or NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Advanced (obsolete edition) |
June 2018 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU |
Convert to NSX Advanced or upgrade to NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Enterprise (obsolete edition) |
June 2018 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU |
Upgrade to NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Data Center Standard |
October 29th, 2021 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Concurrent User |
Upgrade to NSX Professional, NSX Advanced or NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Data Center Professional |
October 29th, 2021 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Concurrent User |
Expansion on NSX Professional or upgrade to NSX Advanced or NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Data Center Advanced |
October 29th, 2021 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Concurrent User |
Expansion on NSX Advanced or upgrade to NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Data Center Enterprise Plus |
October 29th, 2021 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Concurrent User |
Expansions on NSX Enterprise Plus. |
NSX Data Center for Remote Office / Branch Office |
October 29th, 2021 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
Virtual Machine |
Expansion on NSX Remote Office / Branch Office. |
NSX-T Professional |
December 11th, 2023 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Core |
|
NSX-T Advanced |
December 11th, 2023 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Core, Concurrent User |
|
NSX-T Enterprise Plus |
December 11th, 2023 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
CPU, Core, Concurrent User |
|
NSX-T Remote Office / Branch Office |
December 11th, 2023 |
Perpetual, On-premises Subscription |
Virtual Machine |
|
NSX Distributed Firewall |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core, Concurrent User |
|
NSX Distributed Firewall with Threat Prevention |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core, Concurrent User |
|
NSX Distributed Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core, Concurrent User |
|
NSX Firewall for Baremetal Servers |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core |
|
NSX Gateway Firewall |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core |
|
NSX Gateway Firewall with Threat Prevention |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core |
|
NSX Gateway Firewall with Advanced Threat Prevention |
December 11th, 2023 |
On-premises Subscription |
Core |
Note: All term subscription CPU socket offerings are no longer offered for sale as of February 3rd, 2023.
