The following table provides the supported topologies for IP version configuration.

Topology # NSX Manager NSX Edge Node - Management Interface VMware vCenter ESX - Management Interface Supported Topology?
IPv4 only Dual stack^ IPv6 only* IPv4 only Dual stack^ IPv6 only* IPv4 only Dual stack^ IPv6 only IPv4 only Dual stack^ IPv6 only
1 ✔️ — ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ ✔️ — — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
2 ✔️ — ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ — — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ Not supported
3 ✔️ — ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
4 — ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ ✔️ — — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
5 — ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ — — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ Supported
6 — ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ — ✖️ — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Supported
7 ✔️ — ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ — — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
8 ✔️ — ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ — — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ Not supported
9 ✔️ — ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
10 — ✔️ ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ ✔️ — — ✔️ ✔️ — Supported
11 — ✔️ ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ — — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ Supported
12 — ✔️ ✖️ — ✔️ ✖️ — ✔️ — ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Supported

Footnote:

  • ^ = Dual stack means both IPv4 and IPv6.
  • * = IPv6 only is unsupported.
Limitations and known issues:

  • For topology #3, adding an NSX Manager with only an IPv4 address will fail when using the Add NSX Appliance wizard on a dual stack ESXi which is onboarded to a dual stack VMware vCenter cluster using its IPv6 address.

    The workaround is to onboard the ESXi host to the VMware vCenter cluster with its IPv4 address.

  • For topology #9, when there is an IPv4 only NSX Manager and a dual stack ESX host which are registered in VMware vCenter using IPv6, there is a limitation where the ESX host cannot communicate with an IPv4 only NSX Manager.
  • For topologies #10 and #12, IPv6 to IPv4 fallback between dual stack NSX Managers and dual stack transport nodes is not supported.