Introduction to the NSX integration

Abiquo offers support for NSX-V with blueprints for:

• NAT
• Gateway
• ECMP

And Abiquo offers support NSX-T, see Abiquo and NSX-T

Supported versions

• See VMware
• To use the firewall and load balancer functionality, NSX Advanced edition or higher is required.

Requirements

• Abiquo supports only one vCenter when working with NSX-V
• You will need a vCenter user with NSX-V administrator rights to use it from Abiquo.
• Ensure the vCenter is managing all hosts so NSX-V can use vCenter to manage them.
  If there are unregistered hosts, the plugin will not work. Abiquo does not validate this.
• Each NSX-V blueprint requires a separate Abiquo license.

Limitations

• Chef is not supported because the NSX-V DHCP does not support the required vendor-encapsulated-options.
• Load balancers are only available through the NSX-V Gateway blueprint and the NAT blueprint

• Abiquo does not currently support firewalls applied to load balancers.

Recommendations

• We recommend using a cluster not managed by Abiquo to deploy the Edge appliances. This cluster is defined in the Remote Services appliance properties in each DC.