3 Replies Latest reply on Feb 4, 2019 3:55 AM by HassanAlKak88

NSX Cross-vCenter Controller Cluster

padulka Feb 4, 2019 2:51 AM

Hi to all, in my lab I'm deployng a Cross-vCenter environment; in all guide I'm finding when I deploying the Controller Cluster on primay site, into secondary 'site' I would find a copy of all controller vm, but it's not. The version of environment is: vCenter 6.5u2 NSX-V 6.4 Regards

1. Re: NSX Cross-vCenter Controller Cluster

HassanAlKak88 Feb 4, 2019 2:59 AM (in response to padulka)

Hello,

What do you mean by a copy ? it is a virtual machines ?

From primary NSX manager (primary site) you should see the below:

And from secondary, you got the following:

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2. Re: NSX Cross-vCenter Controller Cluster

padulka Feb 4, 2019 3:46 AM (in response to HassanAlKak88)

Hi Hassan, sorry for my wrong explain. This is my first deployment and I figured since that Controller VM is a VM I would find on secondary site a copy of this to manage a disaster recovery of NSX Infrastructure into primary site. In ufficial VMware documentation I find the following:
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3. Re: NSX Cross-vCenter Controller Cluster

HassanAlKak88 Feb 4, 2019 3:55 AM (in response to padulka)

No worries dear, the role of the community is to help each others in order to provide the best solutions.

Noting that the controller cluster exist always on the active site. and regarding your screenshot it is correct you have to deploy the controller cluster on the DR but when the primary site is down.

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