Deploy vROps on VXLAN

[avnish201110141]

Hi All,

I have an environment with 20 ESXi host vSphere6.0 , with NSX and vSAN. vCenter , PSC , NSX Manager is running on the VLAN based network and Customer VMs are running on the VXLAN, now i am planning to deploy vROPS and Customer is saying that Deploy the vROPS on VXLAN network and i am suggesting the it should be near to other management componets , so lets keep into VLAN backed network which has vcenter and other management vms.

Looking forward for suggestion on this ?should it be on VLAN or VXLAN ?

[bayupw]

I haven't try that, technically running on VXLAN should work but I would put vROps on the Management VLAN closer to vCenter, NSX Manager, ESXi Management, and other management components

There could be unnecessary hair-pinning traffic flow if you put vROps on VXLAN

[jhague]

‌I wouldn't say either VLAN or VXLAN is right or wrong but there is no reason why it can't be installed on VXLAN to give the same security benefits through micro segmentation as are extended to customer workloads. In fact this is the way the management applications are architected in the VMware Validated Design for SDDC. For the likes of vCenter and NSX they need to be VLAN backed but everything else is up for debate 🙂

VVD link if you fancy some bed time reading. Page 120 onwards if you want a short cut 😉

https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-validated-design-30-sddc-reference-architecture.pdf

[bayupw]

Agree with John and that VVD is a good reference