Important: Starting with version 4.0, VMware NSX-T Data Center is known as VMware NSX.

Use the navigation on the left to browse the available NSX documentation including the API and CLI guides. To access the PDF format of NSX documentation, select a guide and click the PDF icon .

VMware NSX provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments. NSX focuses on providing networking, security, automation, and operational simplicity for emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoint environments and technology stacks. NSX supports cloud-native applications, bare metal workloads, public clouds, and multiple clouds.

NSX is designed for management, operation, and consumption by development organizations. NSX allows IT teams and development teams to select the technologies best suited for their applications.

Additional Resources

• NSX Reference Design Guide

  This design guide targets virtualization and network architects interested in deploying NSX solutions. Chapters 2 through 6 explain the architectural building blocks of NSX as a full stack solution, providing a detail functioning of NSX components, features and scope. The design chapter (Chapter 7) offers guidance for a variety of factors including physical infrastructure considerations, compute node requirements, and variably sized environments from small to enterprise scale.

• NSX Product Page

  Provides an overview and introduction of the NSX. Key features, benefits, use cases, customer stories and resources for NSX are featured here.

• NSX Blog

  This page features articles under the headings of threat intelligence, modern network, VMworld, IDS/IPS, and firewalling. Trending topics such as service mesh are highlighted, and display all articles pertaining to the trending topic.

• NSX Hands-on Labs (HOL)

  This catalog provides all the labs offered by VMware. You can search for labs, view lab details, and enroll in labs. Labs include NSX Getting Started, NSX Cloud Consistent Networking and Security across Enterprise, AWS & Azure Lightning Lab, and the VMware NSX Migration Coordinator.

• NSX Training and Demo videos

  There are over 62 videos listed on the VMware NSX YouTube channel. Videos range from 5 to 20 minutes long, and cover a wide variety of topics such as micro-segmentation, NSX Edge bridge demo, and NSX cross cloud security. Subscribe to the channel to be kept up to date on new videos.

• NSX Load Balancing Encyclopedia

  This document gives you a deep dive into NSX Load Balancing configuration and management. It lists all NSX LB capabilities (LB Deployment, Monitor, Server Pool, L4 VIP, L7-HTTP VIP, L7-HTTPS VIP, LB Rules, and Troubleshooting), with detailed examples for each.

• NSX Multi-Location Design Guide

  This document provides details on the pros and cons of NSX’s multi-location solutions: Multisite and NSX Federation. It also offers a deep dive into the implementation strategies, and guidance on best practices for configuring network and security services in each solution.