IPv6 Limitations Between Management Plane/Control Plane and Transport Nodes

There are some limitations for the IPv6 communication between the management plane/control plane and transport nodes.

The following limitations in IPv6 support are:

• IPv6 only for NSX Manager and NSX Edge is not supported.
• NSX Global Managers (NSX Federation) are not supported for IPv6 in the management plane and control plane interfaces.
• IPv6 TEP with Geneve encapsulation is supported for the transport node types of NSX Edge and ESXi hosts only.
• For the IPv6 communication between the management plane/control plane and transport nodes, after transport nodes are registered to NSX Manager, the IP version configured for the transport node cannot be switched.

  For example, if a transport node is configured as IPv4 and added to NSX Manager, you cannot switch its IP version to IPv6 only or vice versa.

• IPv6 communication is prioritized between dual stack NSX Managers and dual stack transport nodes. IPv6 communication to IPv4 communication fallback mechanism is not supported.
• Autonomous Edge with IPv6 APIs is not supported.
• IPv6 tunnel endpoints (TEP) used for VXLAN encapsulation with EVPN are not supported.
• Windows, Linux physical servers do not support IPv6 communication with NSX Manager.