NSX Data Center for vSphere Interoperating with NSX-T Data Center in a Greenfield Deployment

This deployment option allows CSPs to deploy the vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition 3.1 platform by using both NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center networking stacks. The CSP can create a dedicated Resource Pod for each networking stack and map it to a VMware Integrated Openstack Project by using the TVD plug-in configurations in the Horizon Dashboard.

Table 1. Greenfield vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition 3.1 Deployment

Building Block	Design Objective
Management Pod	Single vCenter Server instance for both NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center stacks. Separate management and control planes for NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center. A VMware Integrated OpenStack instance for both NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center, network and workload management.
Resource Pod	Dedicated NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center resource pods. Common vSphere versions across both stacks.
Edge Pod	Dedicated NSX Data Center for vSphere and NSX-T Data Center Edge pods.

Note:

To deploy platform instance based on NSX Data Center for vSphere, use the vCloud NFV Openstack Edition 2.0 Reference Architecture design guidelines and principles.

Figure 1. NSX-T Data Center and NSX Data Center for vSphere Coexistence in Greenfield Deployments

NFVI components such as vCenter Server treat both stacks as separate entities in terms of host clusters, resource pools, and virtual switches. At the top level VIM component, VMware Integrated Openstack allows Projects to consume the resources of each stack by configuring Tenant VDCs backed by the corresponding Resource Pod. Each stack has a dedicated Resource and Edge Pods for compute and North-South connectivity respectively.