There are two options for managing NSX across multiple locations.
Multisite | NSX Federation | |
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Availability | NSX 2.3 | NSX 3.0 |
Environments | Two locations in metropolitan regions (<10 ms across locations) with stretched VLAN | Other use cases |
Number of NSX Manager clusters | 1 | 1 per location |
Network Services | All features supported:
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All features supported from GM:
Exceptions:
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Security Services | All features supported:
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All features supported from GM:
Exceptions:
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High-Availability for Management Plane | NSX Manager VMs recovery
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NSX GM and LM VMs recovery with SRM. |
High-Availability for Compute VMs | Compute VMs recovery
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Compute VMs recovery
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Also see the NSX-T Data Center Multi-location Design Guide and VMware Site Recovery Manager.