basic question NSX solution

[javog12]

hey community hope your answer some question do I have:

How do I license VMware NSX per socket?

Could NSX integrated with Hyper-V or KVM?

NSX is limited if the NICs on the Hypervisor are 1GB or 10GB?

hope your comments!

Regards!

[Sreec · Accepted solution]

How do I license VMware NSX per socket?

Yes licensing is per socket level and if you have a DR site with SRM configuration,only active site hosts needs to be NSX licensed.

For more information you may refer https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=20786...

Could NSX integrated with Hyper-V or KVM?

Hyper-V support yet to be integrated. However this will be coming in NSX-T version. Multicloud,multihypervisor support

For now KVM based on RHEL&ubuntu and ESXI is the only supported hypervisor stack

NSX is limited if the NICs on the Hypervisor are 1GB or 10GB?

I hope you are asking,if any NSX specific traffic is demanding specific network bandwidth? Firstly you should follow all network best practices for vSphere traffic(VMotion,vsan,FT) etc . To be more precise VMkernel specific network requirement you should consider normal vSphere network design requirement.From NSX perspective,overlay is not demanding any specific bandwidth requirement for compute workloads.However your physical network matters- Leaf&Spine architecture and if you use ACI in physical network you need to follow all ACI best practices for getting maximum bandwidth and availability(Because leaf doesn't connect to another leaf in ACI design).

[javog12]

Thanks for answers,

what if I have a Spine&Leaf architecture only the spine switchs must have 1600 MTU or also the Leaf Switches needs to be on 1600 MTU?

hope your comments!

RegardS!

[Sreec]

Short answer is all L2/L3 interfaces where the VXLAN packet is flowing you need to set the right MTU within the site or across the sites in a multisite design(For eg: over a MPLS link)