Hello,
As part of our Metro availability setup (two Nutanix clusters with 10 nodes per site), we plan to implement network segmentation for DR traffic and storage/RF traffic on each cluster.
For the DR traffic, the guide suggests you can use a stretched Layer 2 network configuration without requiring a gateway. This is our preferred approach, to have one VLAN/subnet stretched across the sites dedicated to Metro traffic.
To set this up, I plan to:
- In Prism, create the IP pool using half the subnet and specify the service being isolated (in this case, DR). Specify the port group in ESXi to be used for DR traffic.
- Repeat the same steps on the other cluster, using the upper part of the IP range. Specify the same port group used in step one.
- Run the commands outlined in the KB below on both clusters.
My questions are:
- Are my steps correct?
- Why do I need to run the commands if everything is configured in Prism?
I'm a bit confused about the need to perform the command line steps - what are they doing?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,