NSX-T 3.0 edge VM networking and TEP?

[feter20]

hope my questions are not too stupid.

just examined the edge networking and other posts in this forum.

i noticed that NSX-t 3.0 has just integrated VSS/VDS together to load the overlay network and would like to know:

1. is it doable to assign both edge VM and ESXi7.0 TN to the same TEP(VLAN)?? or they must to use separate TEP?

2. is the "eth0" interface undeletable and fixed with vNIC1??

[Sreec · Accepted solution]

1. is it doable to assign both edge VM and ESXi7.0 TN to the same TEP(VLAN)?? or they must to use separate TEP?

If this is home lab or POC , you can certainly configure a single VLAN for all types of traffic. It works even for multisite design.

2. is the "eth0" interface undeletable and fixed with vNIC1??

Eth0 must be assigned to management interface , however other interfaces can be assigned to overlay or VLAN networks.

[feter20]

Hi Sreec,

your answers are quite helpful~!!!

by the way, I would like to solve a doubt on the Edge tunnel endpoint which is,

is the Edge "TEP" same as other transport nodes' TEP(ESXi, KVM...etc) that are all in charge of the overlay network?

thanks again~!!

[Sreec]

Yes, from a functionality perspective Edge TEP and Host TEP are same.