vShield Edge and VNI's

[RaymundoEC]

Hello sirs,

I have a couple of questions, if I have a cluster with vXLAN and I have let's say 5 VNI's, so I want to connect to external Network thru vShield Edge device, this means that those 5 VNI's will consume 5 connection from vShield Edge remaining 4 plus the one connected to external physical network, in concordance with 10 connections , I mean are these treated like interfaces to networks? When I want to communicate let's say VNI 5001 with VNI 5002 for whatever reason, do I need a vShield Edge deployed and connected explicitly to them?

Thanks in advance

Ray.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

As far as I understand this (I Have not done it actually), to interconnect VXLANs you can use a vCNS Edge device as a VXLAN terminator.

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[RaymundoEC]

Some auto answers:

vShield treat the subnets or VNI's of VXLAN as interfaces, also vLAN and VXLAN till 10.

They need a Edge Device to communicate between them, and no static routing except FW rules to pass traffic are required.

Regards

Ray.