The following figure depicts the management, control, and data plane components that make up an NSX implementation. Each has an important part to play in enabling ESXi for the Distributed Firewall and VXLAN. In this section, we will explore the interaction among the various components:
- vCenter server: This is the management component of the vSphere environment and is where the networking and security components of an NSX environment are all managed from.
- NSX Manager: This is the management plane of the NSX implementation. It integrates directly with vCenter and manages both the NSX controller cluster and the ESXi hosts. The NSX Manager is also responsible for pushing distributed firewall rules to each host that is prepared ...
