Create Groups from Global Manager
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.
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:- VM1inLocation1
- VM2inLocation2
- VM3inLocation3
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.

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 . |
|
From Global Manager ,
create group Group-Region1 with region
Region1 . Add
Group-Loc2 as a member.This is a nested
group. |
|
From Global Manager ,
navigate to 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.