Deployment Guide

48 VCF on VxRail Multirack Deployment using BGP EVPN

8 Configure NSX-T north-south connectivity

The necessary components to facilitate NSX-T overlay networking are automatically created by VCF on

VxRail including VLAN and overlay transport zones as well as Uplink, NIOC, and Transport Node profiles.

This chapter provides the steps that are required to establish north-south connectivity from the NSX-T overlay

network to the leaf switches. This includes the deployment of NSX-T Edge appliances and the related NSX-T

objects including Edge Cluster profiles, assigning Edge Transport Node roles, and creating an Edge Cluster.

Using the VMware Validated Design 5.0.1 Deployment of VMware NSX-T for Workload Domains, the

following sections were completed:

• Create Transport Zones

• Create Uplink Profiles and the Network I/O Control Profile

• Create the NSX-T Segments for System, Uplink, and Overlay Traffic

• Create an NSX-T Edge Cluster Profile

• Deploy the NSX-T Edge Appliances

• Join the NSX-T Edge Nodes to the Management Plane

• Create an Anti-Affinity Rule for the NSX-T Edge Nodes in the VI-WLD cluster

• Add the NSX-T Edge Anodes to the Transport Zones

• Create an NSX-T Edge Cluster

• Create and Configure the Tier-0 Gateway

• Create and Configure the Tier-1 Gateway

The rest of this chapter contains information to use to augment the previous steps, which include the tables

with the specific values used in this guide. If a value is not specified in the following example, then the exact

steps and values from the VVD are used.

8.1 Create transport zones

Table 8 shows the values that are used when creating two extra transport zones for uplinks. VCF on VxRail

automatically created a transport zone that is associated with the transport zone profile called vlan-tz-<UID>

as well as the overlay-tz -<UID>, where UID is a system-generated identifier. Two uplinks transport zones

need to be defined. Each associated a separate NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch (N-VDS). Each N-VDS is

configured to carry VLAN traffic. See Create transport zones for step by step instructions.

Edge transport zones

Name

N-VDS name

N-VDS mode

Traffic type

sfo01-w-uplink01

Standard

VLAN

sfo01-w-uplink02

Standard

VLAN