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Thank you for the reply cnrz, that helps a lot. I actually came across the same article, which made me question our current design.

One point to note may be Since Edge VMs talk to Physical world such as Routers they  need Vlan Uplinks to route VM traffic to the Physical Wan or Internet. So according to the Physical Data Center design, extending these Vlans may not be possible or desirable to either the Management Pod, or Resource Pods.

This is one of the reasons kept our Edge/Compute cluster separate from the Management cluster. All of our hosts use the same uplinks to get out to the Internet. The difference with our Compute/Edge cluster is the addition of the VTEP for accessibility for the Edge's.

Total Bandwidth needed for North-South traffic. If ECMP is used Edge Cluster of 8 VMs may scale up to 80Gbps. If the Applications require these kind of high throughput, then consuming this amount of traffic on 3 Host Management Cluster may not be possible due to the Number of 10Gbps Physical Uplinks on the host.  If Management Vlan and the Uplink Vlan coexist on same uplink, Network I/O Control may be needed. Since the Management VMs are not the destination of Compute traffic, this amount of High throughput should use the VTEPs of the Management hosts as VXLAN traffic of DLR-Edge Logical Switch increasing the number of hops and latency. Instead if the Edge VMs reside on the Compute Cluster delivering this kind of high throughput traffic may be easier.

Per my last comment, do you think I should enable NIOC on my Compute/Edge cluster? We multiple uplinks that are shared amongst our different portgroups.

Again total number of Edge VMs in the design may be important. 2 Edges may be enough for a wide variety of Applications and number of VMs. Or there may be many edges if NAT or Duplicate IPs is required for seperation of tenants in a Cloud Environment.

This was actually another question I had. In our design, we have separate dedicated Edge VM's for clients. So if we have 50 customers, we may have 50 Edge VM's. This is due to the fact that a majority of our customers take advantage of the different options available on the Edge, such as NAT, SSL VPN, etc. Is this a normal configuration?

If the scale of traffic is planned to increase to high amounts, then putting Edge VMs to Compute Cluster may be a good idea.

The bulk of our traffic is in our Compute/Edge cluster, which is another reason why we put our Edge's there.

Thank you again for your assistance.

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