4.5 NSX Manager
NSX Manager is the management component for NSX for vSphere and is typically located in the management cluster. The key functions of the NSX Manager are:
• Deployment and management of the controller cluster
• Preparation of the vSphere ESXi hosts (installation of the VIBs)
• Deployment of the edge services gateways and associated services (firewall, NAT, routing, and so on)
• Acts as the target for NSX REST API calls