Managing NSX logical (distributed) routers
Before NSX, if you created a router in your network, it would be a physical or virtual machine connecting two or more networks. All of the traffic from one of the networks to another network connected to the router had to go through the router. Even if two virtual machines connected to different networks were on the same host, if the router were physical or virtual on another host, the traffic would go from the virtual machine off the host to the router and then back to the host and the other virtual machine. In NSX, routing is distributed over the hosts. Every host does a part of the routing. Traffic from one virtual machine to another virtual machine on the same host on a different network connected to the same router does not leave the host in NSX. This is a huge advantage of routing in NSX over traditional routing. NSX Edge logical routers are used for East-West network traffic. This means network traffic within a data center. In the following...
