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Question regarding In-line / No SNAT deployment with NSX-ALB (AVI Vantage)

  • 1.  Question regarding In-line / No SNAT deployment with NSX-ALB (AVI Vantage)

    Posted Jul 04, 2023 05:48 AM

    Hi, Im trying to deploy NSX-ALB Service Engines with In-line with No SNAT.

    NSX-ALB : Basic Edition

    Infrastructure : vSphere + NSX 

    Cloud : Default (No Orchestration)

    Subnet : 2 (VIP subnet and Pool member subnet)

    VRF : global (Default) . static route (default gateway for VIP network)

    floating IP : setted for poom member servers

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    I saw service working well and Layer 3 IP transparency also working with this deployment but I also want achieve

    pool member server having Service Engine's floating IP address as a default gateway can communicate outside word itself

    and in the other words, I want to connect directly into pool member servers.

    What im trying to achieving is in-line with no-snat deploy and also get the connectivities to pool memeber server which set to their

    default gateway to NSX-ALB SE's floating IP address.

    I know nowdays VMware support service chaining (sort of PBR) to support this kind of scenario but i want to try this without

    NSX-T Cloud.

    I saw there are feature called "Wildcard VIP" in NSX-ALB and this might be working with this scenario but there are not much paper regarding this feature.

    Am i diggin right place or if you have some good suggestions ill be glad to waiting.

     

    Thanks folks.



  • 2.  RE: Question regarding In-line / No SNAT deployment with NSX-ALB (AVI Vantage)

    Posted Jul 04, 2023 10:53 AM

    Hi,

    I think this is what you mean:

    Default Gateway (IP Routing on Avi SE) (avinetworks.com)

    Please keep in mind that Basic version has a lot of limitations.
    I am not sure if this option works in Basic edition.
    Documentation says: Limited: Only default gateway for applications is supported.