NVIDIA DSX Air
The facts below are what the maker publishes about NVIDIA DSX Air, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From NVIDIA DSX Air's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Free | 60 concurrent vCPUs · 60 GiB concurrent memory · 10,000 compute-hour credits · 1 year · only eligible organizations; only organization owners can start |
The facts
Each one read from NVIDIA DSX Air's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access
- The datasheet says simulated nodes can expose HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH services for dashboards, APIs, and external systems.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Access requirements
- DSX Air uses NVIDIA NGC for authentication and requires a business email address; a personal email address is not accepted.checked 11 Oct 2026
- AI factory simulation
- It simulates compute, networking, storage, orchestration, and security deployments before servers are unboxed.checked 11 Oct 2026
- API
- NVIDIA provides DSX Air API reference and SDK documentation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Automation
- NVIDIA describes automating patches and security updates and prevalidating provisioning scripts, automation, and security.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data handling
- The datasheet describes user-owned configurations and topologies and says no data is stored on the platform.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- NVIDIA provides a DSX Air user guide, API reference, and SDK documentation.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The datasheet describes API-based integration with storage, routing, security, orchestration, and other partner solutions, and names Git and Ansible for automation workflows.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The datasheet identifies engineers, architects, and DevOps teams as users who can model deployments, simulate operations, and test automation or security policies.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Network coverage
- DSX Air supports full simulation of both east-west and north-south networks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Networking software
- The datasheet lists support for NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, SONiC, and NetQ.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Operations
- Teams can design, test, and validate provisioning, automation, and security policies before hardware arrives.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Partner ecosystem
- The product page lists Armada, Aviz, BE Networks, Check Point, Hedgehog, Keysight, Netris, OpenNebula, Rafay, TrendAI, and VAST as ecosystem partners.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- NVIDIA DSX Air is a cloud-hosted data center simulation platform for creating digital twins of IT infrastructure.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scale
- The platform can create one-for-one virtual AI factory replicas with hundreds of switches and thousands of GPUs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- NVIDIA’s product security page says reported concerns are evaluated, validated, and addressed with corrective actions, and provides security bulletins and vulnerability reporting.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Simulation
- It supports simulations of NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches, ConnectX SuperNICs, BlueField DPUs, GPUs, and data center networking.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Supported NVIDIA systems
- It supports simulation of Spectrum-X Ethernet switches, ConnectX SuperNICs, BlueField DPUs, NetQ, Run:ai, and Base Command Manager.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Training
- NVIDIA says users can build skills through prebuilt DSX Air labs, tutorials, and shared simulation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Validation
- The platform can be used to validate configurations, features, and automation code and to run full-scale network architectures with multiple network operating systems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workflows
- DSX Air supports continuous integration and delivery workflows, infrastructure as code, and launching simulations through its SDK.checked 10 Oct 2026
Money
- Billing
- NVIDIA says DSX Air usage is billed by compute hour, measured by the minute, with vCPUs and memory billed independently.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Free trial
- NVIDIA offers a free trial of DSX Air to build or simulate a network topology.checked 10 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser support
- The user guide says DSX Air fully supports Chrome 120 or later and Firefox 121 or later, with Edge and Safari supported on a best-effort basis.checked 11 Oct 2026
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