NSX VRF-Lite : Route Leak

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In the last blog we discussed about VRF-Lite introduction & configuration, which is a feature to achieve multi-tenancy (Network isolation) in VMware NSX.

This is part-2 of VRF-Lite series, where we will perform route leak among two different VRF.

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NSX VRF-Lite – Introduction & Configuration

Recently I have completed one of the deployments with VRF-Lite having 10 tenants, VRF-Lite is such a useful feature to achieve multitenancy in NSX-T Data Center.

For this document and topology simplicity, I have kept the tenant count as 2 only but the concept is same for any number of tenant count.

I have decided to capture the concepts in 2 different blogs –

Part-1 – will be focusing on VRF-Lite concepts discussion & configuration.

Part-2 – we will be performing Route-Leak among 2 different VRF-Lite.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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