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NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Transport Zones and Transport Nodes

23/10/2017 by Sam 4 Comments

Posts in this series
  1. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Deploying NSX Manager
  2. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Deploying Controller Cluster
  3. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: ESXi Host Preparation
  4. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Adding a vCenter Compute Manager and Preparing Hosts
  5. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Edge Installation
  6. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Transport Zones and Transport Nodes
  7. NST-T 2.0 Lab Build: Logical Router Configuration
  8. NSX-T 2.0 Lab Build: Upgrading to NSX-T 2.1

Disclaimer! I am learning NSX-T, part of my learning is to deploy in my lab – if I contradict the official docs then go with the docs!

Lab Environment

This NSX-T lab environment is built as a nested lab on my physical hosts. There are four physical ESXi hosts, onto which I will deploy three ESXi VMs, a vCenter Server Appliance, NSX Manager, an NSX Controller cluster, and two NSX Edge Nodes.

Physical, virtual and nested components of the NSX-T lab

Deployment Plan

I will follow the deployment plan from the NSX-T 2.0 documentation:

  • Install NSX Manager.
  • Install NSX Controllers.
    • Join NSX Controllers with the management plane.
    • Initialize the control cluster to create a master controller.
    • Join NSX Controllers into a control cluster.
  • Join hypervisor hosts with the management plane.
  • Install NSX Edges.
    • Join NSX Edges with the management plane.
  • Create transport zones and transport nodes.

When this post series is complete, the network topology should be something like this, with two hostswitches configured. The ESXi Hosts will have a Tunnel Endpoint IP address, as will the Edge. The Edge will also have an interface configured for a VLAN uplink.

The NSX-T Transport Node network configuration

In this post I will walk through configuring the Transport Zone, Transport Nodes, Edge Cluster and other configuration required to support the deployment.
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Filed Under: Networking, NSX, VMware, vSphere Tagged With: edge node, Edge Transport, edge vm, hostswitch, nsx-t, transport nodes, transport zones, vlan

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