If you are using a provider gateway with IP blocks, to provide a fully routed network topology in a VMware Cloud Director virtual data center, you can dedicate the provider gateway to a specific NSX edge gateway.
If you want to dedicate a provider gateway to an organization which provides the possibility of multiple edge gateway connections, you must use provider gateways with IP spaces, see Managing Provider Gateways in Your VMware Cloud Director.
In this dedicated provider gateway configuration, there is a one-to-one relationship between the provider gateway and the VMware Cloud Director edge gateway, and no other VMware Cloud Director edge gateways can connect to the provider gateway.
An edge gateway or a VRF-lite gateway that is associated with a dedicated provider gateway is part of the tenant networking stack. The provider gateway is considered a part of the VMware Cloud Director network routing domain.
Dedicating a provider gateway to an VMware Cloud Director edge gateway provides tenants with additional edge gateway services, such as route advertisement management, border gateway protocol (BGP) configuration, and IPSec VPN configuration.
The tenant can decide which of the tenant networks that are attached to the edge gateway to advertise to the provider gateway. This makes possible a mixture of NAT-routed and fully routed organization virtual data center networks.
You can dedicate a provider gateway to an VMware Cloud Director edge gateway either during the edge gateway creation or later, by editing the edge gateway general settings.
