Overview of the NSX Manager interface

Once NSX Manager is successfully deployed you should be able to see it in your inventory:

1. Click on the NSX Manager virtual machine and review the Summary tab:

2. You should be able to see that the NSX virtual machine adds notes to the summary page. You will also see that this virtual machine is taking up about 8 GB of disk space initially.
3. Let's click on the Configure tab to review its default hardware requirements:

4. The NSX Manager virtual machine has been allocated four CPUs and about 16 GB of RAM. The hard disk is set to be 60 GB in size.
5. Let's proceed to power on this virtual machine. Right-click the NSX Manager virtual machine and navigate to Power | Power On.
6. You will now see that NSX is powered on and VMware guest tools have been started.

 

7. Let's access the NSX Manager from the browser and review its interface...