vCloud Networking and Security offers a hypervisor-based firewall (VMware vShield App™) and antivirus and anti-malware platform (VMware vShield Endpoint™) for third-party virtual appliances. When upgrading to VMware NSX, these technologies are migrated to the VMware NSX Distributed Firewall and VMware NSX Guest Introspection.

Because neither of these two technologies is provided through vCloud Director, descriptions of the process for their migration are out of scope for this document. The VMware NSX Upgrade Guides provide a reference for the migration steps and describe the service impact.