Hello Perttu, One thing about any BM platform is lifecycle management and h/w support (limited and/or slow to catch up). The VM Edges will depend on a broader h/w support that vSphere provides, plus...
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Hello Perttu, One thing about any BM platform is lifecycle management and h/w support (limited and/or slow to catch up). The VM Edges will depend on a broader h/w support that vSphere provides, plus you can create/delete/scale as needed, since they are VM based. If you need very fast convergence times and throughput with services, then BM is a better alternative. VMware will not stop support or development of the BM platform (AFAIK), it just takes more time to support newer h/w. I cannot disclose future releases, but keep an eye on the coming NSX 4.x releases. I would expect newer NIC models (BTW- Mellanox CX6 is supported today, it's not "nvidia" labeled, but it's the same -unless I'm mistaken). If you're happy (throughput and stateful services) with 7-yr old h/w running Edge VMs on vSphere, then why change to BM? I like the K.I.S mentality (Keep It Simple). regards, Thanos
