NSX Edge Cluster Management
You can deploy NSX Edge clusters with 2-tier routing to provide north-south routing
and network services in the management domain and VI workload domains.
An NSX Edge cluster is a logical grouping of NSX Edge nodes run on a vSphere cluster.
NSX-T Data Center supports a 2-tier routing model.
Component | Connectivity | Description |
|---|---|---|
Tier-0
logical router | Northbound | The tier-0 logical
router connects to one or more physical routers or layer 3 switches
and serves as a gateway to the physical infrastructure. |
Southbound | The tier-0 logical
router connects to one or more tier-1 logical routers or directly to
one or more logical switches. | |
Tier-1
logical router | Northbound | The tier-1 logical
router connects to a tier-0 logical router. |
Southbound | The tier-1 logical
router connects to one or more logical switches. |
By default, workload domains do not include
any NSX Edge clusters and workloads are isolated, unless VLAN-backed networks are
configured in vCenter Server. Add one or more NSX Edge clusters to a workload domain to
provide software-defined routing and network services.
You must create an NSX Edge cluster
on the default management vSphere cluster in order to deploy vRealize Suite
products.
You can add multiple NSX Edge clusters to
the management or the VI workload domains for scalability and resiliency. For
VMware Cloud Foundation
configuration
maximums refer to the VMware Configuration
Maximums website.Unless
explicitly stated in this matrix,
VMware Cloud Foundation
supports the configuration maximums of the underlying
products. Refer to the individual product configuration maximums as
appropriate.The north-south routing and network services
provided by an NSX Edge cluster created for a workload domain are shared with all other
workload domains that use the same NSX Manager cluster.