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VM-Series
Deployment
Guide
VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall Overview
Set Up a VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall
VM-Series NSX Edition
The VM-Series NSX edition is the VM-Series firewall that is deployed on the ESXi hypervisor. The integration
with the NetX API makes it possible to automate the process of installing the VM-Series firewall directly on the
ESXi hypervisor, and allows the hypervisor to forward traffic to the VM-Series firewall without using the
vSwitch configuration; it therefore, requires no change to the virtual network topology.
The VM-Series NSX edition only supports virtual wire interfaces. In this edition, ethernet 1/1 and ethernet 1/2
are bound together through a virtual wire and use the NetX dataplane API to communicate with the hypervisor.
Layer 2 or Layer 3 interfaces are neither required nor supported on the VM-Series NSX edition, and therefore
no switching or routing actions can be performed by the firewall.
The only license available for this version of the VM-Series firewall is the VM-1000-HV. For a brief summary
on the capacity, see
VM-Series Models
; for complete information on the maximum capacities supported on the
VM-1000-HV license refer to the
VM-Series datasheet
.
