An NSX Federation environment contains an active and a standby Global Manager cluster and one or more Local Manager clusters.
![Shows three locations with active and standby Global Manager clusters in Locations 1 and 2 with Local Manager clusters in all three locations.](images/GUID-627B38E3-6DB2-4396-8A64-E114BE296E46-high.png)
An NSX Federation environment contains an active and a standby Global Manager cluster and one or more Local Manager clusters.