NSX vSphere 6.1 includes multiple new features as well as operations, consumption, and hardening enhancements.
- Highly available NSX Edge clusters with faster uplink speeds
Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP)
NSX enables you to create highly available and distributed NSX Edge clusters, provides high-bandwidth uplink connection to physical networks, and also ensures active-active redundancy at network virtualization edge - all in software. ECMP on NSX Edge allows up to 80 GBps of aggregate North-South bandwidth and enables a scaleout edge.
- Enhanced micro-segmentation and firewall operations
NSX 6.1 improves micro-segmentation capabilities by providing improved provisioning, troubleshooting, and monitoring with NSX Distributed and Edge Firewalls. There is a new unified interface for configuring both Distributed and Edge firewalls. Integration of NSX with vCAC 6.1 allows for security automation workflows to be integrated with compute automation. In addition, NSX 6.1 enables traffic redirection to network and security partner products like Next Generation Firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Services.
- Connect multiple data centers or offer hybrid cloud services in Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC)
Layer 2 VPN on NSX Edge
With Layer 2 VPN, enterprises can migrate workloads, consolidate datacenters, or create stretched application tiers across multiple datacenters. Service providers can offer tenant on-boarding and cloud bursting services where tenant application networks are preserved across datacenters without the need for NSX on customer premises.
- Unified IP Address management across entire data center
DHCP Relay With DHCP Relay, you can integrate existing DHCP services available in physical data centers into SDDC. This ensuring a consistent IP addressing policy and easy IP management across the entire data center. NSX vSphere 6.1 supports multiple DHCP servers on a single logical router and allows multiple existing DHCP servers to be integrated.
- NSX Load Balancer Enhancement
To allow the load balancing and high availability of more applications hosted in NSX, UDP and FTP load balancing is now available on NSX. This allows the load balancing of applications such as syslog, NTP, DNS.
- Protect Application Delivery Controller (ADC) investments and seamlessly leverage them in SDDC
Tight integrations with partners to enable ADCaaS
NSX 6.1 allows customers using NSX partner ADCs to protect their investment and leverage advanced ADC services from best-of-breed vendors. This out-of-the-box solution brings operational simplicity, integrated workflows, auto deployment of resources, and a central pane for troubleshooting and monitoring both virtual and physical ADCs.
- Advanced host or network security services within SDDC
Enhanced partner integration with Service Composer supports multiple security services including suite solutions that comprise host versus network based services in a single policy.
- Dynamic and secure self-service in SDDC
NSX 6.1 with vCloud Automation Center ® helps you optimize resource utilization and scale by dynamically connecting self-service applications to NSX logical networks while ensuring that infrastructure security policies are automatically applied to isolate and protect the applications.
Documentation Center: http://pubs.vmware.com/NSX-61/index.jsp
