NSX edition comparison
Within this design, there are multiple components that require licenses. This information captures the minimum licenses that are required for the environment to operate correctly.
| Component | Purpose | License |
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| VMware vSphere | Compute virtualization | vSphere 6.7 Enterprise Plus |
| VMware vCenter Server | Infrastructure Management | vCenter Server 6.7 Standard |
| VMwareNSX | Network virtualization | NSX Base for Service Providers 6.4 |
| VMwarevSAN | Storage virtualization | vSAN 6.6 Advanced |
NSX Base for Service Providers edition is only available for service providers through the VMware vCloud Air Network (vCAN). The features in this edition can be found in the following table.
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| NSX Edge firewall |
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| NAT |
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| NSX Edge load balancing |
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| VPN (IPsec) |
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| VPN (SSL) |
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| API-driven automation |
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| Integration with vRealize and OpenStack
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| Automation of security policies with vRealize |
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| SW L2 bridging to physical environment |
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| Dynamic routing with ECMP (active-active) |
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| Distributed firewalling |
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| Integration with Active Directory |
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| Server activity monitoring |
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| Service insertion (3rd party integration) |
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| Distributed load balancing |
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| Integration with HW VTEPs |
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vSAN edition comparison
The following table lists the available features for the Advanced and Enterprise edit's of VMware vSAN that the solution supports.
| vSAN feature | Advanced | Enterprise |
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| Storage policy-based management |
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| Flash read/write caching |
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| Distributed RAID |
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| Virtual Distributed Switch |
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| Rack awareness |
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| vSphere replication |
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| Software checksum |
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| All-Flash hardware |
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| iSCSI target service |
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| IOPS limit |
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| Deduplication and compression |
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| RAID-5/6 erasure coding |
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| Data at rest encryption |
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| Stretched cluster with local failure protection |
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