NSX is a very powerful network virtualization platform that allows the users to spin up large scale complex networks within seconds. For new users, the inventory-based interface that NSX exposes might be a little overwhelming. To ease the network creation process and the workloads’ attachment to such networks we present ‘Autopology’ – a graphical interface aimed to complement NSX and simplify workflows for customers and people stepping into the realm of virtual networking.

What Autopology Offers

• Drag and drop interface to create logical networks so that the customers can design topologies tuned to their environments
• Single click replication of sections of topologies
• Ability to view the drawn network for future reference
• Ability to easily navigate to NSX Manager interface to further customize the logical entities as and when needed
• Ability to attach multiple VMs to logical entities. VMs could be residing on ESX or KVM hypervisors

Benefits

• One cohesive view to design logical networks as opposed to filling out tedious forms across multiple views
• Intelligent defaults help bypass advanced configuration for network objects
• Rapid scaling of logical networks
• Inventory of workloads across multiple hypervisors
• Combine compute and network in a single view