VMware NSX 6.2.3 for vShield Endpoint

VMware announced the release of NSX 6.2.3 with the release notes.  So what is unusual of this release you might ask.  Well other than feature and functions or bug fixes, this also something on licensing.

So what on licensing you might ask other than the previous announcement on having Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions of NSX.

Finally moving forward, vCNS Manager which has always been the key function for vShield Endpoint for AV offloading function is been replaced by NSX in this release.

Looking the release notes:
"Change in default license & evaluation key distribution: default license upon install is "NSX for vShield Endpoint", which enables use of NSX for deploying and managing vShield Endpoint for anti-virus offload capability only. Evaluation license keys can be requested through VMware sales."

This means default installation of NSX will be enabled with vShield Endpoint function just like vCNS Manager which is ending its support soon.

So are you entitled?  Well all existing vSphere customer will be entitled to use NSX moving forward.  If you head to the download site, you will no longer see vCNS Manager but NSX 6.2.3 in this case.


So if you are thinking that you are able to use NSX for routing and switches you will be disappointed, by default the NSX license does not enable any routing switching ability unless you have applied a evaluation license based on the editions accordingly.  This is also stated in the document center.

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