Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
39 Just as a VM is a software container that presents logical compute services to an application, VMware NSX is a software container that presents logical network services – logical switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, and more – to connected workloads. To VMs, the NSX virtual network looks and acts like a traditional physical network. Workloads 'see' the same Layer 2 to 7 network services that they would see in a physical network – it's just that these services are instantiated in software running in the hypervisors throughout the data center. Distributing network and security services, such as routing and firewalling into the hypervisor virtual switch, eliminates hair-pinning – the need for traffic to traverse the network to reach these traditionally hardware-based services. Combining the automated operational model and distributed services capabilities of the VMware NSX platform provides IT organizations with never before possible agility and service delivery speed. Enterprises around the world are transforming data center operations and economics by implementing a software-defined data center approach. This new approach is allowing IT organizations to deliver: ✓ Unparalleled security inside the data center perimeter by delivering operationally feasible micro- segmentation ✓ Dramatically reduced time-to-market by delivering self-service R&D clouds ✓ Significantly reduced operational costs of and extend current investments in existing physical infrastructure.