Networking

Introduction Every workload domain you’ll ever stand up in VCF inherits whatever the physical network underneath it can actually deliver. By the time you’re in the workload domain creation wizard picking a VDS profile, the rack layout, the ToR trunk configuration, and the MTU on every switch port in between have already decided how much of that wizard’s promise you can keep. This post works bottom-up: what the physical fabric needs to provide, how vSphere Distributed Switches carve that fabric into traffic types, and how NSX Edge nodes hand off to it over BGP. ...

Introduction One of the most impactful networking changes in VCF 9 is the introduction of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking as the primary multi-tenancy model in NSX 9.0. VPCs replace the manual overlay segment and Tier-1 gateway model of previous VCF releases with a cloud-native, self-service networking abstraction that aligns with industry standards. In this post, we dive deep into the VCF 9 VPC architecture, Transit Gateway design patterns, and how application teams can consume VPC-based networking from vCenter, VCF Automation, and vSphere Supervisor. ...