3. NSX Manager Deployment

Lets start with deploying NSX manager first to form the management plane. NSX manager is deployed via ova file which can be downloaded from VMware website.

The current version of NSX-T is 2.2.0 . Please refer NSX-T 2.2 Installation Guide before going ahead with deployment.

NSX-T 2.2.0 supports following hypervisor versions:

vSphere 6.5/6.5 U1/6.5 U2
RHEL KVM 7.3
Ubuntu KVM 16.04

NSX manager deployment is pretty straight forward like any standard virtual appliance deployment. Steps are shown in screenshot below.

For more information on NSX Manager installation, please see this article

Once the NSX Manager boots up, verify that the IP address set during deployment was applied as expected.

Also you can try to ping NSX-T from vCenter server and Esxi host to verify its connectivity.

Once connectivity is verified, connect to the NSX Manager GUI by typing https://NSX Manager-FQDN/ and login via admin user and password set during deployment

To apply license to your NSX-T appliance, click on System > Configuration > License and click on Add button to specify your license bit.

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