NSX-T 3.1 Multi-Location Design Guide (Federation + Multisite)

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NSX-T 3.1 offers two technical solutions for Multi-Locations On-Prem Data Centers:

• NSX-T Federation
• NSX-T Multisite

This NSX-T 3.1 Multi-Location Design Guide offers guidance and best practices for Network & Security services in your On-Prem locations.

Note: This document may be updated in the future so always check you have the latest version. This version is 1.11 done on 06/08/2021.

[RaymundoEC]

questions: "deactivate cluster" could be supported in 2.x? this will be a check box or something in the future,  meaning make it easy, os could be invoked thru API call? 

[ddesmidt]

Yes "deactivate cluster" is also supported in NSX-T 2.x releases.

[RaymundoEC]

thanks man!

[kermic]

Question on multisite Management plane recovery with SRM (3.4.1.2.1, option 2 - SRM):

I am assuming that on p.44 the document talks about vSphere replication, quote: "SRM replicates it to the secondary location at specific intervals (default 1 hour and minimum is 5 minutes)".

Also it looks like NSX-T 3.1 documentation no longer mentions the guideline of disabling vSphere snapshots on the NSX-T Manager VM.

Would this mean that NSX-T management cluster nodes in 3.1 can support some level of asynchronous replication / restore? Would vSphere Replication be supported (since it can not provide consistency / synchronicity across multiple replicated VMs) in the SRM scenario mentioned above?

[AyoubSouihel]

Thank you so much .

[ddesmidt]

@kermic 

You are correct about the SRM / vSphere Replication comment. I just fixed it in the lasted Design Guide.

And about your asynchronous replication question, you're also correct. It's supported since NSX-T 3.0.2 (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.0/administration/GUID-F3A0A27E-88C0-4A64-8754-....

Thanks,

Dimitri

[CyberNils]

Dimitri, your link is broken.

Cheers,

Nils

[ddesmidt]

@CyberNils Can you try again?

[CyberNils]

Still not working. The ) is included in the link address, so I think you must remove that.