The NSX Manager provides a web-based user interface to manage the NSX-T environment. In production environments, VMware recommends deploying a cluster of three NSX Manager nodes for high availability.
To deploy the first NSX Manager, perform the following steps.
(Optional) To verify NSX Manager connectivity on the Management network, perform the following steps:
- In the vSphere Client, open the NSX Manager VM console.
- When the NSX Manager has finished booting, login as the admin user.
- Verify DNS name resolution and network connectivity by pinging other hosts and VMs by name. In the following figure, nsxmgr01 successfully pings the host named c1-vxrail-01 and vcenter01.