Morning,
We are looking at 2 options for getting traffic to/from VNI's to VLANs; HW VTEP's and DLR Bridging. Other than the failover time, our concern is throughput using these 2 methods. It is documented saying the HW VTEP has greater throughput, but do we have theoretical limits for both? I'm unable to find supporting documentation.
Thanks
Chris
noonchris,
I would check with your hardware vendors data sheets, but from experience VXLAN bridging should match line rate of the box. With regards to NSX, because we use the same kernel module for Logical Switching to do the bridging, you will see the same near-line rate throughput. This is an older VMworld breakout on NSX performance but it calls out L2 Bridging specifically...
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2015?q=net5212
noonchris,
I would check with your hardware vendors data sheets, but from experience VXLAN bridging should match line rate of the box. With regards to NSX, because we use the same kernel module for Logical Switching to do the bridging, you will see the same near-line rate throughput. This is an older VMworld breakout on NSX performance but it calls out L2 Bridging specifically...
https://videos.vmworld.com/global/2015?q=net5212