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This segment talks about NSX Controller and Control Plan.
Keyword
- NSX Controller and Control Plan
About this video
- Author(s)
- Swati Dhawan
- First online
- 16 July 2024
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0557-8_6
- Online ISBN
- 979-8-8688-0557-8
- Publisher
- Apress
- Copyright information
- © Swati Dhawan 2024
Video Transcript
About NSX Controller– NSX Controller maintains the realized state of the system and configures the data plane. The main functions of NSX Controller include providing control plane functionality such as logical switching, routing, and distributed firewall, computing all ephemeral runtime states based on the configuration from the management plane, disseminating topology information reported by the data plane elements, pushing stateless configurations to forwarding engines.
Control plane components– in NSX, the control plane is divided into central control plane and local control plane. The CCP exists as part of the NSX Manager nodes and is offered by the NSX Controller role. The LCP exists on host transport nodes or on NSX Edge transport nodes. Moving forward, the CCP and LCP perform different functions.
The CCP– it computes the ephemeral runtime state based on the configuration from the management plane. It also disseminates information reported by the data plane elements by using the LCP. LCP monitors the local link status. It computes local ephemeral runtime states based on update from the data plane and the CCP. It pushes stateless configuration to forwarding engines.