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VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall Overview Set Up a VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall
VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall Overview
NSX, VMware's Networking and Security platform designed for the software-defined data center (SDDC),
offers the ability to deploy the Palo Alto Networks firewall as a service on a cluster of ESXi servers. The term
SDDC is a VMware term that refers to a datacenter where infrastructure—compute resources, network and
storage—is virtualized using VMware NSX.
To keep pace with the changes in the agile SDDC, the NSX edition of the VM-Series firewall simplifies the
process of deploying a Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall and continually enforcing security and
compliance for the east-west traffic in the SDDC. For details on the VM-Series NSX edition, see the following
topics:
 What are the Components of the NSX Edition Solution?
 How Do the Components in the NSX Edition Solution Work Together?
 What are the Benefits of the NSX Edition Solution?
What are the Components of the NSX Edition Solution?
The components of this joint Palo Alto Networks and VMware solution are:
Provider Component Minimum
Version
Description
VMware vCenter
Server
5.5 The vCenter server is the centralized management tool for the vSphere
suite.
NSX
Manager
6.0 VMware's Networking and Security platform must be installed and
registered with the vCenter server. The NSX Manager is required to
deploy the VM-Series NSX edition firewall on the ESXi hosts within a
ESXi cluster.
ESXi Server 5.5 ESXi is a hypervisor that enables compute virtualization.