If you want to use a network traffic route that is not publicly advertised within your environment, you can manually configure a static route on an NSX edge gateway.
View the Static Routes on an NSX Edge Gateway in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal
You can view the both the read-only and the editable static routes on an NSX edge gateway.
You can view both the editable and the read-only static routes on an edge gateway. A read-only static route is configured in NSX Manager and can have more than 5 next hops. However, in VMware Cloud Director, you can view only the first 5 hops of a read-only static route.
Prerequisites
Verify that your role includes the Gateway Service: Static Routing View Only right.
Procedure
- Open Edge Gateway Services.
- From the top navigation bar, select Resources, and click the Cloud Resources tab.
- In the left panel, click Edge Gateways.
- Click the radio button next to the name of the target edge gateway, and click Services.
- Click the edge gateway and, under Routing, click Static Routes.
- View the static routes on the edge gateway.
Configure a Static Route on an NSX Edge Gateway in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal
You can manually configure a static route on an NSX edge gateway.
Prerequisites
Verify that your role includes the Gateway Service: Static Routing Configure right.