NSX V2T Layer 2 Bridging with NSX-T Projects

When it comes to migration from one infrastructure to another, there are always complexities and risks involved. Finding the most appropriate approach is key to successful delivery of desired outcomes, but depends on the customisations that exist in the current environment and other operational, technical and business features. The technical solution, presented in this post is just a single step in the entire process of migrating workloads from a NSX-V-based environment to a NSX-T-based, which is also enabled with NSX projects.

The overall migration strategy in this use case is “Lift-and-Shift” between two separate environments. The purpose of this post is to outline the steps necessary to perform in order to create Layer 2 bridges between NSX-V and NSX-T environments and potentially do workload migration between the two environments. The products involved are as follows:

Product	Version
VMware vCenter Server® (Target)	8 update 1
VMware vCenter Server® (Source)	7.0.3.01100
VMware NSX® (Target)	4.1.0.2.0.21761691
VMware NSXV (Source)	6.4.14.20609341
VMware ESXi (Target)	8 update 1

 

NSX-V setup

The NSX-V environment will sometimes be referred as “source” environment. It consists of 2 ESXi hosts, both with NSX-V installed on them and Continue reading