Supported Hypervisor for Host Transport Nodes

To find interoperability between NSX and vCenter Server/ESXi host, do the following:

  1. In the Solution 1 section, from the Select a Solution drop-down menu, select VMware NSX and from the Select a Version drop-down menu, select a version. For example. 4.x.x.
  2. In the Platform/Solution 1 section, from the Select a Solution drop-down menu, select VMware vCenter Server and/or VMware vSphere Hypervisor(ESXi) and select a version. For example, 7.x.
  3. Click Check Interoprability.
Hypervisor Version CPU Cores Memory
vSphere Supported vSphere version 4 16 GB
Note: To avoid memory errors on a hypervisor host running vSphere ESXi version 7.x.x, ensure that at least 16 GB is available before deploying NSX Manager.
Table 1. Supported Hosts for NSX Managers
Support Description Hypervisor
ESXi For supported hosts, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices.

For ESXi hosts, NSX supports the Host Profiles and Auto Deploy features on vSphere 6.7 EP6 or higher. See Understanding vSphere Auto Deploy in the VMware ESXi Installation and Setup documentation for more information.

Caution: On RHEL and Ubuntu, the yum update command might update the kernel version, which must not be greater than 4.19.x, and break the compatibility with NSX. Disable the automatic kernel update when you run yum update. Also, after running yum install, verify that NSX supports the kernel version.