Add an External Network Connection to an NSX Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can configure external network connections to a NSX edge gateway, allowing tenants to configure static route scopes, NAT rules, and firewall rules to apply to a specific external network connection.

Starting with version 10.4.1, VMware Cloud Director supports configuring external network connections to NSX edge gateways.

As a system administrator, you can connect multiple external networks to a single edge gateway. After you set up your external network connections, an organization administrator can configure static route scopes, NAT rules, and firewall rules on the edge gateway to apply to a specific external network connection.

Note: You can connect an external network that is backed by a VLAN segment only to one edge gateway.

Prerequisites

• Verify that the external network is backed by an NSX segment.
• Verify that the edge gateway that you want to configure is backed by NSX.
• Verify that you are a system administrator.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Resources and click Cloud Resources.
2. In the left panel, click Edge Gateways.
3. Click the NSX edge gateway.
4. Under Configuration, click External Networks.
5. Click Connect New.
6. From the drop-down, select an external network to which to create a connection.
7. Select a subnet.
8. Enter a number of IP addresses to be allocated from the selected subnet.
9. Select an assignment method for the IP address.
   If you select Manual, enter an IP address for the external network connection.
10. Click Save.