To avoid conflicts with the failed NSX Edge node, you deploy a temporary NSX Edge node with a new FQDN and IP address.

Prerequisites

Allocate the FQDN and IP address for the temporary NSX Edge node for the domain of the failed node.

Procedure

  1. In a web browser, log in to the NSX Manager cluster for the domain by using the user interface (https://<nsx_manager_cluster_fqdn>/login.jsp?local=true)
  2. On the main navigation bar, click System.
  3. In the left pane, under Configuration, click Fabric > Nodes.
  4. Click the Edge transport nodes tab.
  5. Click Add edge VM.
  6. On the Name and description page, enter these values and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Name

    Enter the VM name

    Host name/FQDN

    Enter the FQDN

    Form factor

    Medium
  7. On the Credentials page, enter these values and the passwords recorded in the earlier steps and then click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    CLI user name

    admin

    CLI password

    edge_admin_password

    CLI confirm password

    edge_admin_password

    Allow SSH login

    Yes

    System root password

    edge_root_password

    System root password confirm

    edge_root_password

    Allow root SSH login

    No

    Audit user name

    audit

    Audit password

    edge_audit_password

    Audit confirm password

    edge_audit_password

  8. On the Configure deployment page, select the following and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    Compute manager

    Enter the vCenter Server FQDN

    Cluster

    Select the cluster

    Datastore

    Select the vSAN datastore
  9. On the Configure node settings page, enter these values and click Next.

    Setting

    Value

    IP Assignment

    Static

    Management IP

    Enter the management IP address.

    Default Gateway

    Enter the default gateway

    Management interface

    Select the management network distributed port group

    Search domain names

    Enter the search domain

    DNS servers

    Enter the DNS servers

    NTP Servers

    Enter the NTP servers
  10. On the Configure NSX page, enter these values which are already recorded and click Finish.

    Setting

    Value

    Edge switch name

    Enter the edge switch name.

    Transport zone

    Enter the transport zone names.

    Uplink profile

    Enter the uplink profile name.

    IP assignment

    Use static IP list

    Static IP list

    Enter the static IP list.

    Gateway

    Enter the gateway IP

    Subnet mask

    Enter the subnet mask

    Teaming policy switch mapping

    Enter the values for Uplink1 and Uplink2.