You can use your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal to help enable north-south traffic within your environment by configuring the network topology for the IP spaces in it.

Prerequisites

Verify that your role includes the IP Spaces:View and IP Spaces:Configure rights.

  • Verify that you own the private IP space that you want to edit.

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 IP Spaces.
  3. Click the name of the IP space and, under Configuration, click Network Topology.
  4. Click Edit.
  5. Select the Route Advertisement Allowed check box to enable route advertisement if routed networks associated with this IP Space need to be advertised from the edge gateway to the provider gateway.
  6. Configure default autoconfiguration rules.
    To autogenerate default NAT rules, you must configure both the internal and the external scope of this IP space.
    1. Select the check box to enable the creation of a default SNAT rule.
    2. Select the check box to enable the creation of a default NO SNAT rule.
    3. Select the check box to enable the creation of a matching firewall rule for each default NAT rule.
  7. Click Save.

What to do next

You can now autoconfigure default NAT and associated firewall rules for this IP space on either the edge gateway or the provider gateway that are associated with it. See Autoconfigure Default NAT and Firewall Rules on a Provider Gateway in Your VMware Cloud Director and Autoconfigure NAT and Firewall Rules on an NSX Edge Gateway in VMware Cloud Director.