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  • 1.  Traffic flow from T1 to T0 and T1 to Outside world

    Posted Jul 20, 2022 08:41 AM

    Dear Team,

     

    Could someone please confirm below flow is correct or need some changes...

    MrVmware9423_0-1658306417020.png

    Thank you in advance...



  • 2.  RE: Traffic flow from T1 to T0 and T1 to Outside world

    Posted Jul 20, 2022 08:54 AM

    Do you have stateful services configured on the Tier-1 gateways?



  • 3.  RE: Traffic flow from T1 to T0 and T1 to Outside world

    Posted Jul 20, 2022 09:09 AM

    Yes, T1 are part of Edge Clusters



  • 4.  RE: Traffic flow from T1 to T0 and T1 to Outside world
    Best Answer

    Posted Jul 20, 2022 09:22 AM

    If you have stateful services configured the traffic flow between VMs would be:

    VM1 > T1DR > T1SR > T0DR > T1 #2SR > T1 #2 DR > VM2.

    This is assuming that every flow from VM1 must hit the stateful service on the way out and must also traverse the stateful service on the second Tier-1 gateway.  Remove the SR's where not required.

    On the way out 

    VM1 > T1DR > T1SR > T0DR > T0SR > out

    FYI, a stateful service is LB, NAT etc, just attaching an Edge cluster to a T1 is not exactly a stateful service, even though it makes the gateway active-standby.  It's best to not attach the edge cluster to a T1 when there are no services being configured.

    Also the packet does not hit the same gateway twice within the one flow (like you have depicted in your first post).

    Hope this helps.