Enhanced NSX Edge and Networking Services in NSX 4.0.1.1

VMware NSX 4.0.1.1 introduces exciting new capabilities and enhancements for virtualized networking and security for private, public, and multi-clouds. Check out the release blog for an overview of the new features.

Among these new features is NSX Gateway Stateful Active/Active Services. This feature delivers a key security enhancement, giving you the full power of the NSX Edge cluster for your services without worrying about bandwidth and CPU limitations. In this blog post, we’ll cover all the terminology you need to know for this new feature, as well as configuration and architecture, and design considerations.

Stateful Active/Active Services

Prior to VMware NSX 4.0.1.0, configuring NSX using any of the variety of NSX services offered by VMware required you to set up NSX Edge Gateways in Active/Standby High Availability mode. Under this configuration, traffic is forwarded through a single (Active) NSX Edge Node. So, when designing the architecture, you needed to be aware of the limits imposed by the Active/Standby mode on the bandwidth and CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization of the node.

With the NSX 4.0.1.0 release of NSX Stateful Active/Active Services, this consideration no longer applies. This new feature makes it Continue reading