You can prepare ESXi hosts and physical servers as NSX transport nodes. Before you prepare physical servers for NSX networking, ensure the required third-party packages are installed on hosts.
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Preparing ESXi Hosts as Transport Nodes ESXi or Bare Metal (physical server) can be prepared as a transport node. ESXi hosts only support vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), while Physical servers only support N-VDS host switch type.Manual Installation of NSX Kernel Modules NSX UI or the POST /api/v1/transport-nodes API (deprecated) API or PUT /api/v1/infra/sites/side-id/enforcement-points/enforcement-point-id/host-transport-nodes/ API, you can install NSX kernel modules manually from the hypervisor command line. Preparing Physical Servers as NSX Transport Nodes NSX on a physical server (also known as Bare Metal server), you must install supported third-party packages. Secure Workloads on Windows Server 2016/2019 Bare Metal Servers NSX agent installed on the servers provides connectivity and security to the bare metal workloads. Configure an ESXi Host Transport Node with Link Aggregation Group ESXi host transport node to use that uplink profile.Quick Start Wizard to Prepare ESXi Cluster hosts for Security-only or Networking and Security ESXi clusters for either Networking and Security or Security-only.Deploy a Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX 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 .Multiple NSX Managers Managing a Single VMware vCenter NSX Manager s managing a single VMware vCenter . Admins can manage different clusters in the same VMware vCenter by using different NSX Manager s.Troubleshoot Multi-NSX Issues NSX Manager is registered to a single VMware vCenter .Managing Transport Nodes
