Traffic to vCenter appliance

[somoa]

Hey

I have a cluster at a remote site connected to our main site via IPsec. The 3 hosts in the cluster have a solid stream of traffic non stop(1mbps down and 300kbps up). This is using up about 1/3 of the WAN link.

Is this normal amount of traffic?

[NicolasAlauzet · Accepted solution]

Hi there, should be enough for the management point of view. Always take into account that more vms, objects and metrics you are collecting more traffic is required.

This doc explain quite good the bandwidth consumption in given scenarios: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/performance/robo-vcenter... 

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