There are many blogs and KB’s detailing vSphere Auto Deploy – For larger vSphere environments, it is pretty much a requirement to help manage large scale hypervisor host deployment. The great news is Auto Deploy can also be used with NSX although there are a couple of small “gotchas” associated with Auto Deploy itself…
A nice KB with Video detailing best practices for ESXi 5.5 installations and upgrades…
Enjoy!
I recently completed an NSX implementation on Nutanix with no issues. My peers ran into a little “gotcha” where the NSX VIB’s needed to be loaded before Nutanix VIB’s…
When reviewing NSX vSphere for the first time, it’s easy to see the value of the kernel based distributed routing, switching, and firewall capabilities, combined with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) of features such as Load Balancing, SSL VPN, and DHCP, but Service Composer capabilities “out of the box” seem unclear…
There was a blog post earlier this year which details NSX support on vBlock… http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2014/05/vmware-nsx-runs-great-vce-vblock-systems.html
Any platform that can run vSphere and the vSphere Distributed Switch supports NSX…