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  • 1.  Compute manager registration in GM NSX questions

    Posted Jul 14, 2024 05:12 PM

    Hi everyone,

    I am new to federation, I have a basic question:

    Let's say we have two sites:

    Site A :

    Site-A-VCA

    Site-A-LM-NSX,

    We have registered Site-A-VCA vcenter under compute manager on Site-A-LM-NSX.

    SIte B:

    Site-B-VCA

    Site-B-LM-NSX

    We have registered Site-B-VCA vcenter under compute manager on Site-B-LM-NSX.

     Next we have registered SITE-A and SITE-B as locations on GM-NSX.

    1) Do we need to register Site-A-VCA  under Compute Manager on GM-NSX?( which is  currently registered as a compute manager on SITE-A-LM-NSX)

    2) Do we need to register Site-B-VCA  under Compute Manager on GM-NSX?( which is  currently registered as a compute manager on SITE-B-LM-NSX)

    Much appreciated!!



  • 2.  RE: Compute manager registration in GM NSX questions

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 16, 2024 05:47 PM

    You do NOT need to register the vCenters in your GM.

    The vCenter talks to the LM, not the GM (and LM talks to vCenter; it's a bi-directional communication).

    Then GM talks to LM (bi-directional communication too).

    There is no need for GM to know about the vCenters nor the ESXi.

    Note: The reason there is an option under GM to register a vCenter is only if you want to deploy the GM-VM2 + GM-VM3 from the GM-UI instead of using the OVA directly in the vCenter and then do the CLI "join <Manager-IP> xxx" command.

    BTW I recommend the 101 ToI and demos available under Broadcom VMware NSX Blog.