VMware NSX 6.2 Released
VMware has released NSX 6.2, which contains alot of enhancement and new features, some of them are:
- NSX 6.2 with vSphere 6.0 supports Cross vCenter NSX
- Consistent firewall policy across multiple vCenters
- Cross vCenter vMotion with DFW
- Universal Security Groups
- Universal Logical Switch (ULS)
- Universal Distributed Logical Router (UDLR)
- New traceflow troubleshooting tool
- Flow monitoring and IPFIX separation
- New CLI monitoring and troubleshooting commands in 6.2
- Central CLI
- CLI ping command adds configurable packet size and do-not-fragment flag
- Show health of the communication channels
- Standalone Edge L2 VPN client CLI
- L2 Bridging Interoperability with Distributed Logical Router
- Support of /31 prefixes on ESG and DLR interfaces per RFC 3021
- Support of relayed DHCP request on the ESG DHCP server
- Ability to keep VLAN tags over VXLAN
- Exact Match for Redistribution Filters
- Support of administrative distance for static route
- Ability to enable/disable uRPF check per interface on Edge
- Display AS path in CLI command show ip bgp
- HA interface exclusion from redistribution into routing protocols on the DLR control VM
- Distributed logical router (DLR) force-sync
- View active edge in HA pair
- REST API supports reverse path filter(rp_filter) on Edge
- Behavior of the IP prefix 'GE' and IP prefix 'LE' BGP route filters:
- The management interface of the DLR has been renamed to HA interface
- Load balancer health monitoring improvements
- Support VIP and pool port range
- Increased maximum number of virtual IP addresses (VIPs
- New IP address discovery mechanisms for VMs
- Support for vSphere 6.0 Platform Services Controller topologies
- Support for vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for NSX 1.0.2
For more information see the release notes: Release Notes