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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The virtual edge gateways must be deployed with routing adjacencies established with two or more physical routers.
Description
Discussion Text
An edge gateway is deployed to allow north-south traffic to flow between the virtualized network and the physical network, including destinations outside of the data center or enclave boundaries. The gateway establishes routing adjacencies between the virtual routers and physical routers. The gateway can also filter the north-south traffic to enforce security policies for communication between the physical and virtual workloads.
Implementing the edge gateway in either active/standby or equal-cost multipath (ECMP) mode ensures there is always a virtual router to forward north-south traffic, assuming there is always a routing adjacency with a router in the physical network infrastructure. Having an adjacency with only one physical router creates a single point of failure regardless of the number of links deployed, there would be no connectivity between the virtual and physical workloads if a node failure occurred. Hence, it is imperative that each edge gateway is deployed with connectivity to two physical routers.
Implementing the edge gateway in either active/standby or equal-cost multipath (ECMP) mode ensures there is always a virtual router to forward north-south traffic, assuming there is always a routing adjacency with a router in the physical network infrastructure. Having an adjacency with only one physical router creates a single point of failure regardless of the number of links deployed, there would be no connectivity between the virtual and physical workloads if a node failure occurred. Hence, it is imperative that each edge gateway is deployed with connectivity to two physical routers.
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