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

Table 1. Comparison of Multisite and NSX Federation
Multisite NSX 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. Supported starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.1.0, except with NSX tags on VMs and Segment ports
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.

Also see the NSX-T Data Center Multi-location Design Guide.