Stretching Clusters

You can stretch a cluster in the management domain or in a VI workload domain across two availability zones.

This section describes how to stretch an NSX for vSphere cluster. To stretch an NSX-T cluster, see Deployment of VMware NSX-T Workload Domains with Multiple Availability Zones for VMware Cloud Foundation.

You may want to stretch a cluster for the following reasons.

• Planned maintenance

  You can perform a planned maintenance on an availability zone without any downtime and then migrate the applications after the maintenance is completed.

• Automated recovery

  Stretching a cluster automatically initiates VM restart and recovery, and has a low recovery time objective for the majority of unplanned failures.

• Disaster avoidance

  With a stretched cluster, you can prevent service outages before an impending disaster such as a hurricane or rising flood levels.