A transport zone is a mandatory object or container in NSX prior to creating a logical switch. A logical switch must be created on a transport zone. If you are familiar with vCenter in vSphere, it is similar to the virtual data center object concept in vCenter, where it functions as a container to place ESXi hosts, vSphere clusters, or virtual machines.
When creating a logical switch, the NSX Manager will look for the transport zone configuration to see which vSphere clusters are part of it. The NSX Manager will create the logical switch or dvPortGroup on all virtual distributed switches in that transport zone, which could be in multiple distributed switches.
Unlike other NSX objects, the transport zone ID is not shown in ...
