Network virtualization logical design
The NSX DFW solution will be deployed over an existing VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure, coupled with an existing cloud consumption management platform. The solution has two independent deployment target data centers.
Within this deployment, the construct of the cloud tenant has been declined by the customer in the project entity, which is identified as a group of VMs characterized by the same customer, application, reference environment, and network zone. The tenant and project are considered as the same entity in the following descriptions.
NSX for vSphere architecture will consist of the following clusters, as per VMware best practices:
- A set of management clusters (one for the smaller site, two for the second site) containing the NSX Manager instance, the vCenter Server instances, and any other management VMs that are needed by the cloud and IAAS manager. The clusters don't have the underlying hosts prepared for NSX for vSphere to protect...
