VMware Cloud Director 10.2 release introduced key features in the networking and security areas and bridged the gap between VCD and NSX-T integration. In this release of VCD, the following NSX-T enhancements are added:
- VRF Lite support
- Distributed Firewall
- Cross-VDC networking
- NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) integration
These improvements will help partners expand their network and security services with VMware Cloud Director and NSX-T.
In this post, I will be talking about tenant networking using NSX-T VRF Lite.
One of the key components in VCD networking is External Network which provides uplink connectivity to tenant virtual machines to allow them to talk to the outside world (Internet, VPN etc). External networks can be either
- Shared: Allowing multiple tenant edge gateways to use the same external network.
- Dedicated: One-to-one relationship between the external network and the NSX-T edge gateway, and no other edge gateways can connect to the external network.
Dedicating an external network to an edge gateway provides tenants with additional edge gateway services, such as Route Advertisement management and BGP configuration.… Read More