VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Create a virtual IP (VIP) address for the NSX-T Manager cluster for the management domain.
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Issue/Introduction
Design Decision: Create a virtual IP (VIP) address for the NSX-T Manager cluster for the management domain.
Resolution
Design Justification: Provides high availability of the user interface and API of NSX-T Manager.
Design Implication:
- The VIP address feature provides high availability only. It it does not load balance requests across the cluster.
- When using the VIP address feature, all NSX-T Manager nodes must be deployed on the same Layer 2 network.
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.
Note: To search for additional information on this design decision please search on the design decision text in https://docs.vmware.com/. For example https://docs.vmware.com/en/search/#/%22Enable%20Network%20I%2FO%20Control%20on%20all%20distributed%20switches.%22
Design Implication:
- The VIP address feature provides high availability only. It it does not load balance requests across the cluster.
- When using the VIP address feature, all NSX-T Manager nodes must be deployed on the same Layer 2 network.
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.
Note: To search for additional information on this design decision please search on the design decision text in https://docs.vmware.com/. For example https://docs.vmware.com/en/search/#/%22Enable%20Network%20I%2FO%20Control%20on%20all%20distributed%20switches.%22
Additional Information
Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you.
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