VMware NSX - Multi-site design options - recommendations - scenarios
DISCLAIMER - THIS IS REMINDER BASED POST - ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT OFFICIAL MULTI LOCATION DESIGN GUIDE HERE One of the fundamental scenarios which can be fulfilled using datacenter SDN solution like VMware NSX is capability to implement multisite setup, giving option to Customer to utilise multiple DC locations over any L1/L2/L3 inter site link with larger MTU support because of overlay encapsulation inside NSX. Worth mentioning is fact that security, incorporated inside NSX, is also capable to follow multi location logic needed for these type of implementations. There are two main concepts behind multisite setup offered by NSX: NSX Multisite - single NSX manager cluster managing transport nodes in different locations, and NSX Federation - introduced from NSX v3.x, with 1 central global management cluster (global manager) and 1 NSX manager cluster per location (local manager). In this article I will follow up on design decisions and recommendation...