How it works...
The reason a dedicated logical switch is created in this recipe is to ensure heartbeat traffic is separated from normal data traffic. It is considered best practice to keep heartbeat traffic separated from other network traffic, and the simplest way to achieve this is via a new logical switch, as opposed to a VLAN backed Portgroup. Also, local link IP addresses are used so that the two appliances can communicate with one another; however, this can be overridden if required.
Once the logical switch is created and HA enabled on the edge, NSX Manager will deploy a second edge onto the same datastore and resource pool in the same form factor of the primary appliance. If another resource pool or datastore is desired, this can be ...
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