NSX settings applied to Edge and host transport nodes covering MTU, transport VLAN, teaming policy and which uplinks are active or standby.
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Terms in this definition
- NSX
Software that handles networking and security across VCF, covering firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPCs, overlay segments and Tier-0/1 gateways.
- MTU
Biggest frame an interface can carry. The physical fabric needs at least 1600 bytes for NSX overlay traffic, with 1700 recommended and 9000 preferred where jumbo frames run end to end.
- VLAN
Layer 2 broadcast domain tagged using 802.1Q. In VCF they carry TEP, vSAN, vMotion and management traffic, and NSX can back segments with them.
- Exclusions
Scopes taken out of a policy assignment; they can only narrow its coverage, never widen it.
Related terms
- transport node profile
NSX template that sets out VDS, transport zones, uplink profile and TEP addressing for turning every host of a vCenter cluster into a host transport node.