Primary and secondary NSX managers

In the previous chapters, we have discussed cross-vCenter NSX deployment. We will now look at configuring primary and secondary NSX managers in a multi-vCenter NSX deployment.

NSX 6.2 and later allows you to manage multiple vCenter NSX environments from a single primary NSX Manager.

Before we delve more deeply into primary and secondary NSX manager configuration, let's briefly go over the benefits of cross-vCenter NSX deployment.

Benefits of cross-vCenter NSX

Cross-vCenter NSX environments can be managed centrally. This means that organizations with multiple vCenter instances and multiple NSX instances can manage them all with one central primary NSX instance. With a cross-vCenter environment...