Need help in deployment of collapsed Compute and Edge cluster - NSX-T2.3

[amitbharti]

Hello,

I am new to NSX-T but i understand the concepts as i have been working on NSX-V for quite some time now. I am planning to deploy a collapsed Edge and compute cluster. All hosts in the cluster have 4NICs. 2 NICs will be kept for VDS and 2 NICs for N-VDS. Could anyone point me to any deployment example like this where i can get to know from start how many transport zones i will have to create and how may N-VDS to be created while creating a host as transport node.

Also, i am planning to deploy Edges behind N-VDS and not behind VDS so any document for pre-requisite or steps would help?

Thanks,

Amit

[lhoffer]

I'd encourage you to start on page 46 of the VMware® NSX-T Reference Design as the edge and routing architectures in T are significantly different than NSX-V.  Specifically, the N-VDS instances inside of an edge connect to a vDS so you'll effectively have both since the Geneve tunnel endpoint in NSX-T actually lives directly on the edge VM and not in the hypervisor like the VXLAN tunnels in NSX-V did.

[amitbharti]

Thank you for the design guide.

I have however gone through the design guide however it does not give design recommendation for collapsed compute and Edge cluster. It does give for collapsed Management and Edge cluster design.

N-VDS instances of an Edge can either be connected to port group backed by VDS or VLAN backed logical switches on N-VDS if it is to be deployed behind N-VDS in collapsed compute and edge cluster design. However i am not getting much details or documentation about it.

Please see this link:

Demo: NSX-T Data Center Edge VM deployment on N-VDS Logical switches - YouTube

Thanks,

Amit

[vcrooky]

Hey Amit,

Did you ever get anywhere with this? I understand NSX-T Edge networking, however I'm struggling with the collapsed compute/edge.

Cheers,

James

[daphnissov]

What particularly are you struggling with? If you provide some concerns, perhaps we can help.