Definitely a noob question: :smileyhappy:
Does vSphere 6 require you to use NSX? Even if you use a vDS?
Welcome to the Community - As far as I know no it does not.
I have also moved this to a more approrpiate forum -
No, it does not. NSX is a completely separate product and not required. You can continue to use distributed vSwitches without NSX.
Great, thank you both for the clarification.