VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - In vSphere HA, set the restart priority policy for each NSX-T Edge appliance to high.
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VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - In vSphere HA, set the restart priority policy for each NSX-T Edge appliance to high.

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Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: In vSphere HA, set the restart priority policy for each NSX-T Edge appliance to high.

Resolution

Design Justification:
- The NSX-T Edge nodes are part of the north-south data path for overlay segments for SDDC management components. vSphere HA restarts the NSX-T Edge appliances first so that other virtual machines that are being powered on or migrated by using vSphere vMotion while the edge nodes are offline lose connectivity only for a short time.
- Setting the restart priority to high reserves highest for future needs.

Design Implication: If the restart priority for another management appliance is set to highest, the connectivity delays for management appliances will be longer .

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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