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
- 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)
- On the main navigation bar, click System.
- In the left pane, under Configuration, click Fabric > Nodes.
- Click the Edge transport nodes tab.
- Click Add edge VM.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.