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Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 2

rutgerblom November 12, 2019 2

Welcome back! I’m in the process of setting up NSX-T in a stretched cluster environment. In part 1 I deployed the NSX manager cluster and configured the ESXi hosts as NSX transport nodes. The N-VDS was installed on the ESXi hosts and their vmkernel adapters migrated from the VDS to the N-VDS. In this second…

Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 1

rutgerblom November 8, 2019 5

A stretched cluster architecture facilitates for higher levels of availability and things like inter-site load balancing. It’s a common multisite solution and also part of VMware’s Validated Design for SDDCs with multiple availability zones. Traditionally compute networking in an active-active multisite setup has had its challenges, but with vSAN storage and NSX networking technologies that’s…