Psuedo-Distributed Virtual Routers with Vyatta VM

I’ve got a stretched VLAN design using OTV and HSRP isolation/localisation I’m doing at work and was thinking how you would simulate FHRP isolation or something like it using a Vyatta VM. Unlike VMware’s NSX virtual router, the Vyatta router is not distributed. It can only be on one host at any point in time – can’t it? As I’m incredibly smart [and humble], I began thinking that FT (Fault Tolerance) would do the trick since the Vyatta can happily chug along with a single vCPU. Like most things I’ve thought of, someone else has gotten there before me so I decided to google some phrases. In this case it was Matt Oswalt of keepingitclassless.net here:

https://keepingitclassless.net/2013/05/virtual-routing-part-2-router-redundancy-in-vmware-vsphere-2/

Thanks Matt

More reading

OTV Technology Introduction and Deployment Considerations

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/DCI/whitepaper/DCI3_OTV_Intro/DCI_1.html#wp1186074

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