In VMware Cloud Director, an edge gateway backed by an NSX gateway provides a routed organization VDC network with services such as load balancing, network address translation, and firewall.

Prerequisites

For information about the system requirements for deploying an NSX edge gateway, see the NSX Administration Guide.

You can dedicate a provider gateway to an entire organization, which makes possible connecting multiple edge gateways to a dedicated provider gateway. See Managing Provider Gateways in Your VMware Cloud Director.

VMware Cloud Director supports basic NSX edge cluster configuration. For more information on NSX edge clusters, see NSX Installation 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. Click New.
  4. Select the NSX-backed organization VDC on which you want to create the edge gateway, and click Next.
  5. Enter a name and, optionally, a description for the new edge gateway.
  6. To enable IP space management for the edge gateway, toggle on the IP Address Management option.
  7. Select a deployment mode, and click Next.
    Option Description
    Active Standby Supports stateful services.

    The edge gateway follows the state of the network connections and traffic flows. It uses the information about the state of the connection to manage the traffic more effectively which also enhances the security.
    Distributed Only Does not support stateful services.

    Because of the lower resource requirements, this option can provide higher throughput.
  8. To dedicate a provider gateway to the edge gateway, toggle on the Dedicate Provider Gateway option if you are using IP blocks.
  9. Select a provider gateway to which the new edge gateway connects and click Next.
  10. Select an edge cluster on which to deploy the new edge gateway and click Next.
    If you want to run the edge gateway services on an edge cluster that is different from the one associated with the provider gateway, you can configure the edge gateway to use a different edge cluster.
    • Use the edge cluster of the external network to which the edge gateway is connected.
    • Select from a list of edge clusters available to the organization VDC on which you are deploying the edge gateway.
  11. Review the Ready to Complete page, and click Finish.