VMware NSX Transport Zone
The NSX Transport Zone is an object in NSX that is used to define the scope of a logical switch and Distributed Logical Router (DLR). When creating a logical switch, a transport zone must be selected; the transport zone will be a container object for logical switches. A transport zone defines a collection of ESXi hosts (vSphere cluster) and a vSphere cluster can be part of multiple transport zones. A logical switch can only belong to one transport zone and virtual machines in different transport zones cannot reside on the same layer 2 network. As a best practice, always align a transport zone to vDS boundaries. In the following example, a transport zone called RegionA01 is created with three clusters added to the ...
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