NSX Federation introduces some new terms and concepts, such as remote tunnel endpoint (RTEP), span, and region.
NSX Federation Systems: Global Manager and Local Manager
An
NSX Federation environment includes two types of management systems:
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Global Manager: A system similar to NSX Manager that federates multiple Local Managers.
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Local Manager: An NSX Manager system in charge of network and security services for a location.
NSX Federation Span: Local and Stretched
When you create a networking object from
Global Manager, it can span one or more locations.
- Local: The object spans only one location.
- Stretched: The object spans more than one location.
You do not directly configure the span of a segment. A segment has the same span as the gateway it is attached to.
NSX Federation Regions
Security objects have a region. The region can be one of the following:
- Location: Each location automatically creates a region. This region has the span of that location.
- Global: A region that has the span of all available locations.
- Custom Region: You can create regions that include a subset of the available locations.
NSX Federation Tunnel Endpoints
In an
NSX Federation environment, there are two types of tunnel endpoints.
- Tunnel End Point (TEP): The IP address of a transport node (Edge node or Host) used for Geneve encapsulation within a location.
- Remote Tunnel End Points (RTEP): The IP address of a transport node (Edge node only) used for Geneve encapsulation across locations.
