For network and security purposes, you can create an NSX-T cloud account and associate it with one or more vCenter cloud accounts.
An NSX-T cloud account can be associated to one or more vCenter cloud accounts. However, an NSX-V cloud account can only be associated to one vCenter cloud account.
The association between NSX-T and one or more vCenter cloud accounts must be configured outside of VMware Aria Automation, specifically in your NSX application. VMware Aria Automation doesn't create the association between NSX and vCenter. In VMware Aria Automation, you specify one or more configuration associations that already exists in NSX.
When you create an NSX cloud account in VMware Aria Automation, you specify a manager type and an NSX mode. These selections cannot be changed after you create the cloud account.
You can connect to an NSX Global Manager and configure an association between an NSX Global Manager and local managers in the context of the NSX federation.
For related information about NSX options and capabilities in general, see VMware NSX Documentation.
- VMware Aria Automation can point to one of the NSX Managers. Using this option, one NSX Manager receives the API calls from VMware Aria Automation.
- VMware Aria Automation can point to the Virtual IP of the cluster. Using this option, one NSX Manager assumes control of the VIP. That NSX Manager receives the API calls from VMware Aria Automation. In case of failure, another node in the cluster assumes control of the VIP and receives the API calls from VMware Aria Automation.
For more information about VIP configuration for NSX, see Configure a Virtual IP (VIP) Address for a Cluster in the NSX Installation Guide at VMware NSX Documentation.
- VMware Aria Automation can point to a load balancer VIP to load-balance the calls to the three NSX Managers. Using this option, all three NSX Managers receive API calls from VMware Aria Automation.
You can configure the VIP on a third-party load balancer or on an NSX-T load balancer.
For large scale environments, consider using this option to split the VMware Aria Automation API calls among the three NSX Managers.
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have the required administrator credentials and have enabled HTTPS access on port 443. See Credentials required for working with cloud accounts in VMware Aria Automation.
Also Verify that you have properly configured your ports and protocols to support the cloud account. See the System Requirements topic in Installing VMware Aria Automationwith Easy Installer and the Port Requirements topic in Reference Architecture Guide. Both publications are available on the VMware Aria Automation product documentation page.
- Verify that you have the cloud administrator user role. See What are the VMware Aria Automation user roles.
- Verify that you have a vCenter cloud account to use with this NSX cloud account. See Create a basic vCenter cloud account in VMware Aria Automation.
For related information, see VMware NSX Documentation.
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What to do next
You can create or edit a vCenter cloud account to associate with this NSX cloud account. See Create a basic vCenter cloud account in VMware Aria Automation.
Create and configure one or more cloud zones for use with the data centers that are used by this cloud account. See Learn more about Automation Assembler cloud zones.
Configure infrastructure resources for this cloud account. See Building your Automation Assembler resource infrastructure.
For samples of using NSX-T options in VMware Aria Automation cloud templates, see Network, security group, and load balancer resource examples in Automation Assembler.