Hello,
my company is looking or the ability to build an hybrid fabric. In particular to have NSX as the virtual fabric and VXLAN-EVPN as the physical one.
The vision is to have NSX and EVPN control plane able to talk to each other in order to exchange reach-ability information and therefore be able to build an end to end VXLAN tunnel.
the goal is to have a VM to physical switch tunnel when i want to talk to the legacy environment or the rest of the world.
Ideally i would be able to i-BGP peer if everything in within my control or e-BGP if i am looking at some kind of DCI or 2 environments managed by different people.
i know NSX doesn't support EVPN.
- Does NSX-T support it? If not, how can i solve my business requirement?
- is there any plan for vmware to support the industry standard EVPN control plane?
Hi, I have recently finished a project, where MP-BGP-EVPN was used in the underlay network, and VXLAN was terminated at the leaf switches. We then had NSX performing VXLAN as the overlay. As you rightly say, NSX-v does not have that capability, and we had to configure eBGP from NSX edges to the physical leaf switches.
As far as I am aware, NSX-T does not have this feature, but I will try to find out for you. Of course, there are options around hardware VTEP's which will integrate with NSX, but I'm not sure this is the use-case you are looking for.
Hi, I have recently finished a project, where MP-BGP-EVPN was used in the underlay network, and VXLAN was terminated at the leaf switches. We then had NSX performing VXLAN as the overlay. As you rightly say, NSX-v does not have that capability, and we had to configure eBGP from NSX edges to the physical leaf switches.
As far as I am aware, NSX-T does not have this feature, but I will try to find out for you. Of course, there are options around hardware VTEP's which will integrate with NSX, but I'm not sure this is the use-case you are looking for.