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NSX management cluster down

What happens to the network traffic between VMs if the NSX management and controller cluster is completely  down ?

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CyberNils
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It will keep forwarding traffic, but you cannot do vMotion or power on new VMs. Make sure you keep NSX Manager highly available and able to quickly recover it. If you loose two NSX Manager nodes, you can make the last one operational and deploy two new nodes following this:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Validated-Design/6.0.1/sddc-backup-and-restore/GUID-8A4E86B6-9CBE-...

 



Nils Kristiansen
https://cybernils.net/
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