NSX-T Edge VM Design - Decision Flow
NSX-T Edge VM Design is not an easy topic. Simply because every customer has his own technical requirements and their environment differs according to the number of physical servers, the number of VMs, and the storage solution in place. Note : Edge Design on Bare Metal Server is not addressed in this article. Questions to ask? Before starting the NSX-T Edge VM Design, there are some questions that you need to answer: How many physical servers or hosts do I have in my environment? How many physical network interface cards (pNICs) are available on each host? Do I have IP Storage or vSAN? Which NSX-T release do I run today? Why these questions are important before deploying NSX-T Edge VMs? Because as I mentioned we have different options to configure the host where Edge VMs will be deployed. These options depend on the following criteria: Data Center Size - VMware recommends to dedicate a cluster for Edge VMs. But there is a cost associated (CAPEX and OPEX) and some custo