There are two options for managing NSX-T Data Center across multiple locations.

Table 1. Comparison of Multisite and Federation
Multisite Federation
Availability NSX-T Data Center 2.3 NSX-T Data Center 3.0
Environments Small and medium enterprises Large enterprises
Environment Profile
  • Small and medium scale deployments
  • No specific site management or policy requirements
  • Large scale deployments
  • Specific site management or policy requirements
Number of NSX Manager clusters 1 1 per location
VMware Site Recovery Manager support for disaster recovery of Management Plane Fully supported starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2. Fully supported for the recovery of Global Manager and Local Manager appliances starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2.
VMware Site Recovery Manager support for disaster recovery of compute VMs Fully supported starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2. Not Supported.
vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) support for disaster recovery of Management Plane Fully supported. Fully supported for the recovery of Global Manager and Local Manager appliances starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2.