Advice on Non-Federated Design ?!

[TryllZ]

Hi All..

I have NSX Federation setup with 3 sites, each site with 8 hosts, all hosts in the same Transport Zone, each host having 4 vmnics, all on the same vDS.

I'm looking to do a Non-Federated setup, and wanted to use the existing hosts on a new vDS but learned 2 things from the NSX Design Guide below..

And

Please correct me if I'm mistaken..

1) vmnics can't be shared between vDS, each host's all vmnics are consumed by the 1st vDS

2) All hosts are in the same Transport Zone

I have 2 solution in mind..

1) Add 2 more vmnics to each Host, and then configure them for NSX on a new vDS, and a new Transport Zone

2) Add new Hosts and add them to a new Tranzport Zone

Would apprecite any further input, or a better way of doing this..

Thank You

[Stephan_Zur]

Hi TryllZ,

I assume you talk about the pNIC's of hosts which are the uplinks of the VDS?
Each pNIC can only belong to 1 VDS or VSS. Since you have 4 on each host you could remove two pNIC's from existing VDS and attach them to new VDS.