Three VPC pods with byte-identical addressing and no route between them

Three datacenters, one IP plan: identical isolated pods with NSX VPCs

Three nested-ESXi pods with byte-identical addressing, down to the MACs, and no route between them. How overlapping VPC address ranges turn cookie-cutter environments into a feature.

16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
Hub-and-spoke: three private pods reach one shared-services VPC over the transit gateway; the service cannot reach back

Shared services for isolated tenants: PrivateTGW subnets

Three pods with identical addressing all need the same repo, WSUS and AD. One shared-services VPC serves them all through the transit gateway, and can’t reach back into any of them.

16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton