After manually installing NSX Edge on ESXi or Bare Metal, configure an NSX Edge to the NSX-T Data Center fabric as a transport node.
An NSX Edge can belong to one overlay transport zone and multiple VLAN transport zones. If a VM requires access to the outside world, the NSX Edge must belong to the same transport zone that the VM's logical switch belongs to. Generally, the NSX Edge belongs to at least one VLAN transport zone to provide the uplink access.
Prerequisites
- Transport zones must be configured.
- Verify that compute manager is configured. See Add a Compute Manager.
- An uplink profile must be configured or you can use the default uplink profile for bare-metal NSX Edge nodes.
- An IP pool must be configured or must be available in the network deployment.
- At least one unused physical NIC must be available on the host or NSX Edge node.
Procedure
What to do next
Add the NSX Edge node to an NSX Edge cluster. See Create an NSX Edge Cluster.