Autoconfigure BGP on a Provider Gateway in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1, you can autoconfigure BGP on your provider gateway.

Autoconfiguring BGP on a provider gateway generates a BGP neighbor, prefix list and route map based on the IP space uplink that you select.

Important: If you choose to run autoconfigure again for the same IP space uplink, this resets the created BGP components to their default behavior.

Prerequisites

• Verify that your provider gateway uses IP spaces.
• Verify that you have the System IP Spaces: View and Provider Gateway Routing: Manage rights assigned to you.
• Verify that you associated at least one IP space to the provider gateway. See Add an IP Space Uplink To a Provider Gateway in Your VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Resources and click Cloud Resources.
2. In the left pane, click Provider Gateways.
3. Click the provider gateway.
4. On the right of the provider gateway name, click Autoconfigure > BGP.
5. (Optional) Enter the name of a BGP permission group to use for the autoconfiguration.
   If you don't enter a name, no BGP permission group is created as part of the configuration.
6. From the drop-down list, select an IP space uplink.
7. (Optional) To configure a BGP neighbor, enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address for the BGP neighbor.
8. If you entered and IP address for the BGP neighbor, enter a remote autonomous system (AS) ID number either in ASPLAIN or in ASDOT format.
9. Click Autoconfigure.