Create Groups from
Global Manager

Create Groups from
Global Manager
that apply globally across your
NSX
deployments or cover selected locations or regions.

Group Span

When you create a group from the Global Manager, you select a region for the group. The group is synced with all locations in that region. A global region containing all locations, and a region for each location that has been added to the
Global Manager
are available automatically as regions you can select for a group's span. You can create customized regions before you create groups. See Create a Region from Global Manager.
In this example,
Group1
is created in the Global region, and is therefore synced with all Local Managers.
This diagram shows the span of groups created from the Global Manager and pushed to all three Local Managers registered with it.

Dynamic Groups

If a group that spans more than one location has dynamic membership, you need information from each location to list the group membership.
In this example,
Group1
has the following members:
  • VM1
    in
    Location1
  • VM2
    in
    Location2
  • VM3
    in
    Location3
Each Local Manager syncs its dynamic group membership with the other Local Managers. As a result, each Local Manager has a complete list of group members.
This diagram shows that groups created in any Local Manager are synced with all the other Local Managers.

Nested Groups

For groups created from the
Global Manager
, you can add another group as a member if it has an equal or smaller span than the group's region.
If you are using
NSX
version 3.0.0, you can add a group as a member of another group only if the span of both the groups is exactly the same.
Extending the example using
Region1
that contains
Location2
and
Location3
, note the following additional configurations:
Task
Effect
From
Global Manager
, create
Group-Loc2
with region
Location2
.
  • Group-Loc2
    is created in
    Global Manager
    .
  • Group-Loc2
    is created in the Local Manager
    Location2
    .
From
Global Manager
, create group
Group-Region1
with region
Region1
. Add
Group-Loc2
as a member.
This is a nested group.
  • Group-Region1
    is created in
    Global Manager
    .
  • Group-Region1
    is created in
    Location2
    and
    Location3
    .
  • Group-Loc2
    is created in Local Manager
    Location3
    .
From
Global Manager
, navigate to
Inventory
Regions
and edit
Region1
to remove
Location2
.
This action is not allowed because of the nested group
Group-Region1
.
See Add a Group for detailed steps for creating groups.