Hatem Naguib claimed that “the NSX controller cluster is completely out-of-band, and never handles a data packet” when describing VMware NSX Network Virtualization architecture, preemptively avoiding the “flow-based forwarding doesn’t scale” arguments usually triggered by stupidities like this one.
Does that mean there’s no packet punting in the NSX/Open vSwitch world? Not so fast.
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