NSX non distributed routing with VMware Cloud Director
Introduction While working with NSX Version 3.2.X together with Avi (ALB) and VMware Cloud Director, I encountered an unexpected behavior. Clients were not receiving responses from the configured load balancer VIP, and I was curious as to why. During my investigation using NSX Traceflow, I observed an unusual traffic pattern in the return path to the client. Although the NSX service insertion behaved as expected, I questioned why SNAT (Source Network Address Translation) was also triggered. It is worth noting that the load balancer virtual service is configured to preserve the client’s IP address. ...