NSX-T - Evaluation Guide

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Overview

The goal of this document is to offer a "step by step" NSX Evaluation Guide to test (some) NSX Services:

• Security Services
  • Micro-Segmentation (DFW)
  • Identity Firewall
• Logical Networking Services
  • Logical Switching
  • Logical Routing (with distributed routing)
• Operation tools
  • Network Topology
  • Traceflow

NSX offers many more services, such as Load Balancing, VPN, IDS, NSX Intelligence, Federation, etc.
Those are currently out of scope of that document.

Also to limit the ESXi/Storage requirements, this evaluation does not cover high-availability and only 1 element of each NSX component will be installed.

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This document table of content is:

1. Requirements
2. Installation of NSX
3. NSX Evaluation
   1. Security only (no Logical Network)
   2. Logical Network + Security
   3. Operation Tools
   4. Other - Identity Firewall

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Next Step: 1. Requirements