VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Apply VM-VM anti-affinity rules in vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (vSphere DRS) to the NSX-T Manager appliances.

Products

• VMware
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Apply VM-VM anti-affinity rules in vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (vSphere DRS) to the NSX-T Manager appliances.

Resolution

Design Justification: Keeps the NSX-T Manager appliances running on different ESXi hosts for high availability.

Design Implication: 
- You must allocate at least four physical hosts so that the three NSX-T Manager appliances continue running if an ESXi host failure occurs.
- You must perform additional configuration for the 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. 

Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

VMware Validated Design (VVD) Bill of Materials