vmb01
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MTU from DC to branch

A customer has a main  DC and 9 branches . He would like to install NSX-T to have the same L2 segment in all the branches. The question is: does he nedd a 1600 MTU from the main DC to the branches  and frome branch  to branch ?

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ssanthoshkum
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Hi ,

      Are you planning to use L2VPN for extending the segment across all branches?. Kindly clarify which method you are planning to configure. 

 

HTH

Sandy

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vmb01
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Hi 

the customer would like to use a L2 segment not a L2 VPN so the network traffic will be incapsulated from the TEP in the main DC and will be decapsulated from the TEP in the branch.

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ShahabKhan
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Hi,

To use overlay, yes you should have a MTU of 1600 or more. Secondly, you have to consider latency between the main DC & the branch as well. Do you. know what is the RTT between the DC & branch offices?

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vmb01
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Hi, I don't know about the RTT latency but which is the maximum latency tolerated?

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ShahabKhan
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Between the NSX Manager cluster & Transport nodes, it is 150ms RTT. Kindly refer the configmax for more information

https://configmax.esp.vmware.com/guest?vmwareproduct=VMware%20NSX&release=NSX-T%20Data%20Center%203....