NSX delivers speed, security, and availability to enterprises by providing network virtualization at the core of a software-defined data center (SDDC) approach. It allows for 50% reduction in operating expenses and 80% reduction in computing through network automation. NSX has over 65 customers with more than 700 production deployments, and organizations have invested over $1 million in NSX. The NSX ecosystem includes solutions from vendors in operations, security, hardware virtual Ethernet port trunking, and application delivery controllers that leverage NSX through full automation, APIs, metadata, or co-existence with physical network infrastructure.

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NSX: Ecosystem Solutions Overview
NSX delivers speed, security, and availability to the enterprise
Scott Clinton
Senior Director Product Management Ecosystem and Solutions

2. Our Vision:
IT at the Speed
of Business
Inherently Secure
Infrastructure
Data Center Anywhere
Be more efficient
Run things cheaper
Improved data center operations (OpEx 50% reduction)
CapEx (80% compute reduction, ensure full life of network hardware)

3. NSX Value Proposition
Network Virtualization
is at the core of an
SDDC approach
Network, Storage, Compute
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
vSwitch
Hypervisor
Virtualization Layer
“Network Hypervisor”
Virtual networks

4. NSX Customer and
Business Momentum
Organizations
have invested $1M+ in NSX
65+
NSX Customers
700+
Production Deployments
(adding 25-50 per quarter)
100+

5. Ecosystem With NSX
Delivering solutions TO customers WITH Ecosystem
Operations
vRealize Operations Suite,
Hytrust, Gigamon, Splunk
Security
CheckPoint, Intel
Hardware VTEP
Arista, Brocade, Cumulus,
Dell, HP, Juniper
Business Value
Leverage existing and
new investments in
datacenter
infrastructure with NSX
ADC
F5, A10
Service Insertion
“Leverage full automation and
service insertion for NSX”
NSX aware
“Leverage NSX API and
metadata to bring a
solution”
Co-existence
“Let’s meet in the network”

6. CONFIDENTIAL 6
NSX Ecosystem
Service Insertion
“Leverage full automation and
service insertion for NSX”
NSX aware
“Leverage NSX API and
metadata to bring a
solution”
Co-existence
“Let’s meet in the network”
Works with any switching fabric
Works with routing ecosystem using
traditional protocols
Existing Physical firewall provide
security sitting in front of NSX Edge
at layer 3
Existing Physical/virtual ADC
services can connect to NSX at
layer 2 or layer 3

7. Thank You!