Deployment Guide

50 VCF on VxRail Multirack Deployment using BGP EVPN
8.5 Deploy the NSX-T edge appliances
To provide tenant workloads with routing services and connectivity to networks that are external to the
workload domain, deploy two NSX-T Edge nodes. Table 12 shows the values that are used for the edge
nodes.
Uplink profiles
Setting
Value for sfo01wesg01
Value for sfo01esg02
Hostname
sfo01wesg01.sfo01.rainpole.local
sfo01wesg02.sfo01.rainpole.local
Port Groups
sfo01-w-nvds01-management
sfo01-w-nvds01-management
Primary IP Address
172.16.41.21
172.16.41.22
Table 13 shows the networks that the four uplinks on each ESG are attached to both ESG use the same
values.
Edge cluster profile settings
Source network
Destination network
Network 3
sfo01-w-nvds01-uplink02
Network 2
sfo01-w-nvds01-uplink01
Network 1
sfo01-w-overlay
Network 0
sfo01-w-nvds01-management
8.6 Join the NSX-T edge nodes to the management plane
Table 14 shows the values that are used to connect to the edge nodes to the management plane.
Uplink profiles
Setting
Value for sfo01wesg01
Value for sfo01esg02
Name
sfo01wesg01
sfo01wesg02
Port Groups
sfo01-w-nvds01-management
sfo01-w-nvds01-management
Primary IP Address
172.16.41.21
172.16.41.22
8.7 Create anti-affinity rules for NSX-T edge nodes
In this environment, the underlying VxRail hosts are spread out among numerous racks in the data center. In
a simple example, all north-south peering can be established in a single rack, an edge rack. A VM-Host
affinity rule is created to ensure that the ESG nodes are always running on VxRail nodes in that designated
rack, for example, Rack 1.
Table 15, along with the following steps, is used to create two rules. The first rule designates the hosts that
the edge nodes can use. The second rule designates the ESG nodes themselves.
1. Browse to the cluster in the vSphere Client.
2. Click the Configure tab, click VM/Host Groups.