NSX Data Plane IP Pool

[cmezger]

When building the VDS in vCenter Server for the Data Plane where should these IP addresses be a part of the management networking or should the be completely separate?

Management Network in standard switch is a 172.x.x.x /27

VDS1 with vSAN and vMotion with 4 hosts connected

vmnic 1 - vSAN is a  172.x.x.x /27

vmnic 2 - vMotion is a  172.x.x.x /27

VDS2 for "NSX Data Plane and VM running in a student environment

[Sreec]

If this is a POC/Lab set up - you can put in same subnet of management . Going via Enterprise design answer would be NO - There would be different business units and workloads always demands isolation , even Management for Internal and DMZ would be totally different with its own l2/l3 connectivity etc ..  You are already planning to use a different VDS and that is good idea considering heterogeneous traffic that you have in this setup . On a lighter note - if you are planning to test CDO please do check NSX doc for DVS limitation with transport zones