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Episode-02 for Transitioning NSX as crucial component of VCF/VVF

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NSX and VVF/VCF 9 Introduction Why am I jumping directly from NSX to VVF/VCF? The core reason behind this topic discussion is the consolidation of VMware product line under 2 separate strategic groups VVF (VMware vSphere Foundation) More focused on Core virtualizations (Compute, vSAN, NSX Options). ·        Moreover, vSphere (compute) is mandatory, and licensing based on cores and managed by vSphere.  Other components like vSAN and NSX are optional if you want to use separate physical SAN other than VMware provided HCI model, yes you can use it and same is true for NSX if you go with simple networking instead of NSX. Component VVF Requirement Notes vSphere (Compute) Mandatory Core virtualization platform; baseline for VVF vSAN (Storage) Mandatory Licensing is TiB per Core and minimum license cap is 16 Core (even if you have 8 cores then it will be counted...