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Preparing a vSphere cluster for NSX

Preparing a vSphere cluster for NSX does two things:

It installs NSX Kernel modules on each ESXi host, which is a member of the vSphere cluster
It builds the NSX control-plane and management-plane fabric

NSX Kernel modules are packaged as VMware installation bundles (VIBs) and provide functionality such as distributed routing, distributed firewall, and VXLAN bridging.

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