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Why VMware NSX? – Part-2

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  Why VMware NSX? – Part-2 –   Prashant Pandey, VCAP-NV-2021   In Previous blog, we discussed about some basic points talking about some challenges faced by traditional/physical network & how NSX handles the same, where I mentioned that we will discuss about Overlay Tunneling Protocol (OTP) and Micro-segmentation separately in upcoming blogs.   Previous blog link - https://nsxworld.blogspot.com/2022/07/why-vmware-nsx.html So today we will talk about Overlay Tunneling Protocol & Micro Segmentation in this blog.   First thing first – 1. what is OTP? 2. which OTP is being used by NSX?          3. why and 4. where NSX uses OTP? 1.   OTP stands for overlay tunneling protocol, it does nothing but encapsulates the virtual network traffic data and carries it over the physical network. 2.        Geneve is the protocol, which is being used by NSX-T lat...