Edit the Network Settings of a VMware Cloud Director Organization Virtual Data Center

In VMware Cloud Director, you can change the network pool from which new networks are provisioned in an organization virtual data center. You can also enable organization virtual data centers to become eligible for cross-virtual data center networking.

A network pool is a group of undifferentiated networks that you can use to create vApp networks, routed organization VDC networks, and isolated organization VDC networks. You can change the network pool for new networks. Existing networks continue to use the old network pools.

With organization virtual data centers that are enabled for cross-virtual data center networking, organization users with relevant rights can create data center groups and stretched layer 2 networks in these groups.

Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.3, system administrators can assign a VLAN or a port-group backed network pool to an organization VDC, even if their provider VDC is backed by NSX. Organization administrators can then create isolated organization VDC networks backed by such network pools.

Prerequisites

• If you want to enable data center group networking with NSX Data Center for vSphere for an organization virtual data center, verify that you configured cross-vCenter NSX on the backing provider virtual data center.
• If you want to use VLAN and port-group backed network pools in an organization VDC that is backed by a provider VDC which uses NSX, you must ensure that the NSX cluster hosts are added to the vSphere distributed switch. See vSphere Networking.

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 Organization VDCs, and click the name of the target organization virtual data center.
3. Click Networking, and on the Network Pool tab, in the upper-right corner, click Edit.
   You can see the networks used by this organization virtual data center.
4. (Optional) Configure the network pool settings for this organization virtual data center.
   • If you do not want a network pool for this organization virtual data center, turn off the Specify network pool toggle.
   • If you want to configure a network pool for this organization virtual data center, follow these steps:
     1. Turn on the Specify network pool toggle.

        You can see a list of the available network pools with information about their use, available networks, and capacity.

     2. Select the radio button next to the name of the target resource pool.
     3. Configure the quota for this network pool in this organization virtual data center.

        The quota is the maximum number of provisioned networks. Must not exceed the number of the available networks for the selected network pool.

5. To enable cross-virtual data center networking for this organization virtual data center, turn on the Cross VDC Networking toggle.
6. Click Save.