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What is the difference between ESX and NSX?

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Question added by Khalid ElGhazouli , Digital Transformation and IT Senior Manager , Sky Logistics and Sky Ports
Date Posted: 2017/04/06

Wrong question.

nsx not work without esx

nsx is a virtual switch

Abhijeet Deshmukh
by Abhijeet Deshmukh , Lead Infra Engineer , mphasis

ESX is bare metal hypervisor primarily used for server virtualization and NSX is network virtualization hypervisor

Anas kunnathiyil
by Anas kunnathiyil , IT Manager , AlQalam Group

ESX is virtualization Platform for hosting servers and clients(VDI mostly ) 

NSX is virtualization of networks (distributed switches ,firewall, HA etc...)

Mohammad Tarif Nihad
by Mohammad Tarif Nihad , VMware Administrator , HCL Technologies Ltd

ESX is use for server hardware virtualization and NsX use for Network virtualization.

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