NSX-T Edges come in two form factors – VM & Baremetal both leveraging DPDK libraries, and each having it’s own use case requirements. Prior to version 2.4, NSX-T supported only a single-TEP baremetal Edge design. This design required the need for a minimum of 3 Interfaces with a recommendation of 4. Dedicated interfaces were required for…… Continue reading NSX-T Multi N-VDS Single-TEP Baremetal Edges Deployment and Configuration

NSX-T deploys its own host networking switch on the ESXi /KVM Transport hosts called N-VDS – the Next Generation Distributed Switch. The difference from the vSphere DvSwitch is that N-VDS spans across multiple hypervisors (ESXi, KVM etc) that are a part of the Transport zone (and configured as a Transport node) and that each transport…… Continue reading NSX-T N-VDS Topologies and Migrating Host Networking between vSphere DVS & N-VDS