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VMware NSX Federation – Upgrade

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Recently i have completed one of the NSX Federation environment upgrade, there were few points which needs attention while upgrading Federation deployment and are different if we compare to standalone NSX upgrade for obvious reasons like –

We have only single NSX cluster in standalone deployment , but multiple NSX manager clusters (local manager & global manager) in case of federation.

Question arises-

How Federation upgrade is similar or different than usual standalone NSX upgrade ?
How the upgrade flow looks like in case of federation ?

I have tried to summarized all key points & captured the same in this blog.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-6

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In the previous blog we discussed about North-South packet walk in case of stretched network to 2 different physical locations, using NSX Federation.

Today, we are going to create a Global Policy and write a Deny rule under the same.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-5

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In the previous blog we discussed about MAC learning and East-West packet walk in case of stretched network to 2 different physical locations, using NSX Federation.

Today we are going to discuss about North-South packet walk & decision factors which effects routing.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-4

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In the previous blog we discussed till RTEP creation which is needed for cross-site communication.

Today we will be creating a stretched segment across two physical sites & will examine the MAC learning of VMs situated at two different sites, as well as East-West packet flows between 2 VMs residing on two different sites.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-3

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In previous blogs, we promoted Site-1 as Active & Site-2 as Standby. Also added on-prem locations (site-1/LM-1, Site-2/LM-2) to Active GM.

Today we will be discussing about–

1. Importing local objects to Global Manager.

2. Remote Tunnel End-Points.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-2

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In previous blog, we have discussed federation basics and key concepts, today will talk further, and see how we implement federation, like…

Promoting a site/location as Active, standby.
Adding On-Prem locations.

VMware NSX Federation – Part-1

Background – We are going to discuss NSX federation (part-1) today. since federation is a lengthy topic, I have decided to keep it in a series of multiple blogs.

Where we will start from very basic of it and eventually will be discussing about different design approaches & one of the use-case which I have experienced recently.

What is NSX Federation?
When and Why, one should use NSX Federation?
Key Decision Points to keep in mind before we design / deploy NSX Federation.
Global & local objects.