4.1.1 Stretched L2VPN with VMware NSX On Premises
In this scenario, VMware NSX L2VPN services are configured with VMware NSX deployed both in the VMware Cloud Provider environment and in the on-premises vSphere implementation at the customer’s data center. This scenario provides increased flexibility, because the VMware NSX L2VPN service can extend VXLAN to VXLAN, VLAN to VLAN, and VXLAN to VLAN networks between sites.
In the following figure, VMware NSX is implemented on both sides of the hybrid cloud solution with separate, non-connected instances of VMware NSX. However, for implementations that require simplified management of long-distance VMware vSphere vMotion® migrations from the on-premises site to the VMware Cloud Provider site, the vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) instances are joined to the vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
Figure 2. VMware NSX to VMware NSX Stretched L2VPN
In the illustration, the VMware Cloud Provider (on the left) has an NSX Edge gateway appliance configured as the L2VPN server and the customer (on the right) has an NSX Edge gateway appliance configured as the L2VPN client.
