When a dedicated Edge cluster is not used, the NSX Controller nodes can be deployed into the compute clusters. The disadvantage is that this setup combines tenant workloads with the management components. For logical separation, use resource pools with specific limits and reservations to guarantee NSX Controller performance and allow vCloud Director compute capacity metering. Provider VDC is then mapped to the resource pool and not to the vSphere Cluster (see Section 7.1, Provider Virtual Data Centers).

Network connectivity must be VLAN-based with routing to NSX Manager and ESXi management vmknics. The ESXi management network is recommended.