Activate or Deactivate Distributed Routing on an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

After you activate VMware Cloud Director distributed routing on an edge gateway, the organization administrator can create many routed organization virtual data center networks with distributed interfaces connected to this edge gateway. Traffic on those networks is optimized for VM-to-VM communication.

Prerequisites

The backing NSX-V Manager instance is configured with an NSX Controller cluster. See the NSX Administration Guide.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways.
  3. Select the radio button next to the name of the target edge gateway, and click Enable distributed routing or Disable distributed routing.
  4. To confirm, click OK.

Modify the External Networks and the Edge Gateway Settings in VMware Cloud Director

To modify the external networks and the edge gateway settings in VMware Cloud Director, you can use the Edit edge gateway wizard, which contains the same pages as the wizard that you used to create the edge gateway.

You can modify the settings that you configured when adding the edge gateway. See Add an NSX Data Center for vSphere Edge Gateway to VMware Cloud Director.

To modify the distributed routing setting, see Activate or Deactivate Distributed Routing on an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways.
  3. Click the radio button next to the name of the edge gateway that you want to modify, and click Edit.
  4. To modify the edge gateway settings, go through the pages of the Edit edge gateway wizard by clicking Next, and, on the Ready to Complete page, click Finish.

Edit the General Settings of an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can modify the name and the description of an edge gateway, activate or deactivate FIPS mode and high availability state, and change the edge gateway size configuration.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways, and click the name of the target edge gateway.
  3. On the General tab, in the upper-right corner, click Edit.
  4. (Optional) Edit the name and the description of the edge gateway.
  5. (Optional) Turn on or off each general edge gateway settings.
    General Setting Description
    FIPS Mode Configures the edge gateway to use NSX FIPS mode.
    High Availability Activates automatic failover to a backup edge gateway.
  6. (Optional) Change the edge gateway configuration for your system resources.
    Configuration Description
    Compact Requires less memory and fewer compute resources.
    Large Provides increased capacity and performance than the Compact configuration. Large and X-Large configurations provide identical security functions.
    X-Large Used for environments that have a load balancer with large numbers of concurrent sessions.
    Quad Large Used for high throughput environments. Requires a high connection rate.
  7. To confirm the changes, click Save.

Edit the Default Gateway of an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can change the network that an edge gateway uses as a default gateway.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways, and click the name of the target edge gateway.
  3. On the External Networks > Default gateway tab, in the upper-right corner, click Edit.
  4. (Optional) Configure a network as the default gateway.
    1. Turn on the Configure default gateway toggle.
    2. Select the radio button next to the name of the target external network, and select the radio button next to the target IP address.
    3. (Optional) Turn on the Use default gateway for DNS Relay toggle.
  5. To confirm the changes, click Save.

Edit the IP Settings of an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can modify the IP settings for external networks on an edge gateway.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways, and click the name of the target edge gateway.
  3. On the External Networks > IP settings tab, click Edit.
  4. For each network on the edge gateway, in the IP Addresses cell, enter an IP address or leave the cell blank.
    If you do not enter an IP address for a network, the system assigns an arbitrary IP address to this network.
  5. To confirm the changes, click Save.

Edit the Suballocated IP Pools on an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can suballocate multiple static IP pools from the available IP pools of an external network on an edge gateway.

Note: Allocating IP addresses to an edge gateway through sub-allocation is a process where the provider assigns ownership of IP addresses to the gateway. VMware Cloud Director automatically configures the appropriate gateway interface with the secondary addresses during the sub-allocation process, which can cause IP address conflicts if any of the IP addresses are used outside of VMware Cloud Director.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways, and click the name of the target edge gateway.
  3. Click the External Networks > Sub-allocated IP pools tab.
    You can see the current suballocated IP pools for each external network on this edge gateway.
  4. Click the radio button next to the name of an external network, and click Edit.
    You can see the available IP pools for this external network, and the current suballocated IP pools if configured.
  5. Edit the suballocated IP pools for this external network, and click Save.
    You can add, modify, and remove IP addresses and ranges from the ranges of the available IP pools.

Results

The system combines overlapping IP ranges.

Edit the Rate Limits on an Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, you can configure the inbound and outbound rate limits for each external network on the edge gateway.

Rate limits apply only to external networks backed by distributed port groups with static binding.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Resources, and from the page top navigation bar, select Cloud Resources.
  2. From the secondary left panel, select Edge Gateways, and click the name of the target edge gateway.
  3. On the External Networks > Rate limits tab, in the upper-right corner, click Edit.
    You can see the current rate limits for each external network on this edge gateway.
  4. Edit the rate limits, and click Save.
    For each external network on the edge gateway, you can activate or deactivate the rate limits, and you can change the incoming and outgoing rates.