In reply to Mark G.

@Mark G - The whole workload policy extension is automated with ACI by using API calls into the cloud (AWS/Azure). Single place/dashboard to manage such extension.ACI also is a single product with a consistent roadmap and now covers all types of domains and workloads/apps (on-prem, public cloud, VMs, containers, bare metal, microservices) and it is hypervisor agnostic.

ACI has been built to support modern cloud scale environments and works perfectly with modern cloud adopted and open hypervisors such as KVM. ACI is fully open programmable with open APIs.

NSX is 2 or more different products with no feature parity depending what VMware has in mind recently. NSX-v has dependency on VMware hypervisor and NSX-T has reduced functionality vs NSX-v.

With ACI the VMware ELAs will become much less expensive and development/innovation across clouds can take place by using native Kubernetes. Saves additional licenses from any proprietary PaaS platforms.