VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Apply vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) anti-affinity rules to the NSX components in both stacks.

Products

• VMware
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Apply vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) anti-affinity rules to the NSX components in both stacks.

Resolution

Design Justification: Using DRS prevents controllers from running on the same ESXi host and thereby risking their high availability capability.

Design Implication: Additional configuration is required to set up anti-affinity rules.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

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Additional Information

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