You can change the network pool from which new networks are provisioned in an organization virtual data center. You can also enable organization virtual data centers to become eligible for cross-virtual data center networking.
A network pool is a group of undifferentiated networks that you can use to create vApp networks, routed organization VDC networks, and isolated organization VDC networks. You can change the network pool for new networks. Existing networks continue to use the old network pools.
With organization virtual data centers that are enabled for cross-virtual data center networking, organization users with relevant rights can create data center groups and stretched layer 2 networks in these groups.
Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.3, system administrators can assign a VLAN or a port-group backed network pool to an organization VDC, even if their provider VDC is backed by NSX-T Data Center. Organization administrators can then create isolated organization VDC networks backed by such network pools.
Prerequisites
- If you want to enable data center group networking with NSX Data Center for vSphere for an organization virtual data center, verify that you configured cross-vCenter NSX on the backing provider virtual data center.
- If you want to use VLAN and port-group backed network pools in an organization VDC that is backed by a provider VDC which uses NSX-T Data Center, you must ensure that the NSX-T Data Center cluster hosts are added to the vSphere distributed switch. See vSphere Networking.