What is the primary benefit of using Federation in NSX-T Data Center?

Using Federation in NSX-T Data Center primarily offers consistent policy management across multiple NSX-T instances. This feature enables organizations to maintain uniform security and networking policies throughout various geographic locations or cloud environments within a federated setup. As organizations scale their operations or expand their infrastructure, ensuring that policies such as firewall rules, VPN settings, and segmentation remain consistent is crucial for effective management and compliance.

Consistency in policy management reduces the risk of misconfigurations that can arise from managing separate environments independently. It simplifies operations by allowing administrators to manage policies centrally while still applying them uniformly across different clusters, data centers, or cloud environments. The single control plane provided by Federation ensures that all changes to policies are reflected consistently across the environment, enhancing operational efficiency and security.

This centralization and consistency are vital as businesses increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies or distributed architectures, ensuring that all parts of their network adhere to the same security and operational standards irrespective of their physical or cloud location.