So that VMware NSX L2VPN services provide the greatest benefit, the customer will ideally have an existing implementation of vSphere and VMware NSX for spanning VXLAN-VXLAN and VXLAN-VLAN. If the customer has not yet implemented VMware NSX in their environment, the standalone NSX Edge appliance can be deployed in the customer’s environment for the stretching of on-premises VLANs to the hosted service provider.