Network Requirements for SDDC Provider

In addition to system requirements required for installation, your VDS, NSX-V, or NSX-T network must satisfy requirements for an SDDC provider.

VDS Requirements

The following requirements apply to VDS networking:

• One or more vSphere clusters with at least one ESXi host configured.

• Uplinks from all hosts in the active clusters.

• Port group that can access the management network.

• Each cluster requires a port group with IP addresses for:

  • two load balancers and one virtual IP

  • each master node

  • each worker node

A network with multiple clusters requires IP addresses for all port groups.

NSX-V Requirements

The following requirements apply to NSX-V networking:

• vSphere 6.0 or later installed.

• NSX-V 6.2 or later installed and configured.

• One or more vSphere clusters with at least one ESXi host configured in an NSX transport zone.

• The Kubernetes cluster must be in a single NSX transport zone.

• Each cluster requires one VDS-based port group with at least five static IP addresses. A network with multiple clusters requires IP addresses for all port groups.

• Datastore connected to the vSphere cluster

NSX-T Requirements

In addition to the requirements for NSX-V networking, the following requirements apply to NSX-T networking:

• NSX edge installed and configured in NSX-T.

• A range of IP addresses available to avoid conflict in the datacenter.