Hi,
why DLR is not meant to be used for N-S traffic ?
I would still recommend NSX Edge ,considering the limitation of DLR and supported topologies. Also when we scale , especially for multitenant tenant and cross VC setup , Edge is a perfect candidate for sending transit routes to upstream devices.
Copy paste from VMware Doc :
Start reading from page :69 -- Scalable topology and multi tenant network - I repeat its big plus with ESG in between.
First and foremost , both ESG and DLR perform routing , considering the feature rich services available in ESG (Routing/LB/NAT etc), it is primarily considered as a N-S facing device. DLR data plane is distributed in ESXI kernel modules , while only the control plane exists in a VM and it makes perfect sense to place the DLR as next hop devices for Virtual machines , that way VM-VM routed traffic can be optimized. When we say optimizing, we are reducing the latency. Below picture depicts a routing data flow.
Thank you Sreec,
I am not going to use LB or NAT just routing, Do I need to use the Edge in this case for north south traffic ?
I would still recommend NSX Edge ,considering the limitation of DLR and supported topologies. Also when we scale , especially for multitenant tenant and cross VC setup , Edge is a perfect candidate for sending transit routes to upstream devices.
Copy paste from VMware Doc :
Start reading from page :69 -- Scalable topology and multi tenant network - I repeat its big plus with ESG in between.
Thank you, I will go through VMware doc and maybe come back to you for clarifications