NSX-T Data Center Installation Guide
NSX-T Data Center Installation Guide
Overview of NSX-T Data Center
Key Concepts
NSX Manager
Configure User Interface Settings
NSX-T Data Center Installation Workflows
NSX-T Data Center Workflow for vSphere
NSX-T Data Center Installation Workflow for KVM
NSX-T Data Center Configuration Workflow for Bare Metal Server
Preparing for Installation
System Requirements
NSX Manager VM and Host Transport Node System Requirements
NSX Edge VM System Requirements
NSX Edge Bare Metal Requirements
Bare Metal Server System Requirements
Bare Metal Linux Container Requirements
Ports and Protocols
NSX Manager Installation
Modifying the Default Admin Password Expiration
NSX Manager Cluster Requirements
Cluster Requirements for an Individual Site
Cluster Requirements for Multiple Sites
Installing NSX Manager Cluster on vSphere
Install NSX Manager and Available Appliances
Install NSX Manager on ESXi Using the Command-Line OVF Tool
Configure an Appliance to Display the GRUB Menu at Boot Time
Log In to the Newly Created NSX Manager
Add a Compute Manager
Deploy NSX Manager Nodes to Form a Cluster from the UI
Form an NSX Manager Cluster Using the CLI
Configure a Virtual IP Address for a Cluster
Configuring an External Load Balancer
Disable Snapshots on an NSX Appliance
Installing NSX Manager Cluster on KVM
Set Up KVM
Manage Your Guest VMs in the KVM CLI
Deploy an NSX Manager Cluster on KVM
Install NSX Manager on KVM
Form an NSX Manager Cluster Using the CLI
Transport Zones and Profiles
Create Transport Zones
Create an IP Pool for Tunnel Endpoint IP Addresses
Enhanced Data Path
Configuring Profiles
Create an Uplink Profile
Configuring Network I/O Control Profiles
Configure Network I/O Control and Bandwidth Allocation for System Traffic on an N-VDS
Configure Network I/O Control and Bandwidth Allocation for System Traffic on an N-VDS Using APIs
Add an NSX Edge Cluster Profile
Add an NSX Edge Bridge Profile
Add a Transport Node Profile
VMkernel Migration to an N-VDS Switch
VMkernel Migration Errors
Host Transport Nodes
Manual Installation of NSX-T Data Center Kernel Modules
Manually Install NSX-T Data Center Kernel Modules on ESXi Hypervisors
Manually Install NSX-T Data Center Software Packages on Ubuntu KVM Hypervisors
Manually Install NSX-T Data Center Software Packages on RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux KVM Hypervisors
Manually Install NSX-T Data Center Software Packages on SUSE KVM Hypervisors
Install Third-Party Packages on a KVM Host
Verify Open vSwitch Version on RHEL, CentOS, or Oracle Linux KVM Hosts
Verify Open vSwitch Version on SUSE KVM Hosts
Verify Open vSwitch Version on Ubuntu KVM Hosts
Preparing Physical Servers as NSX-T Data Center Transport Nodes
Install Third-Party Packages on a Physical Server
Configure a Physical Server as Transport Node Through UI
Attach Segment Port to Application Interface of Physical Server
Ansible Server Configuration for Physical Server
Create Application Interface for Physical Server Workloads
Secure Workloads on Windows Server 2016/2019 Bare Metal Servers
Preparing ESXi and KVM Hosts as Transport Nodes
Prepare Standalone Hosts as Transport Nodes
Prepare a vSphere Distributed Switch for NSX-T
Prepare ESXi Cluster Hosts as Transport Nodes
Migrate VMkernels and Physical NICs to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Prepare Clusters for VLAN and Overlay Micro-segmentation
Configure an ESXi Host Transport Node with Link Aggregation
Deploy a Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T on Hosts Running N-VDS Switches
Managing Transport Nodes
Switch Visualization
NSX Maintenance Mode
Migrate ESXi VMkernel and Physical Adapters
Health Check VLAN ID Ranges and MTU Settings
View Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Status
Verify the Transport Node Status
Installing NSX Edge
NSX Edge Installation Requirements
NSX Edge Networking Setup
NSX Edge Installation Methods
Create an NSX Edge Transport Node
Create an NSX Edge Cluster
Install an NSX Edge on ESXi Using the vSphere GUI
Install NSX Edge on ESXi Using the Command-Line OVF Tool
Install NSX Edge via ISO File as a Virtual Appliance
Install NSX Edge on Bare Metal
Prepare a PXE Server for NSX Edge
Install NSX Edge Automatically via ISO File
Install NSX Edge Interactively via ISO File
Intel QAT Support for IPSec VPN Bulk Cryptography
Join NSX Edge with the Management Plane
Configure an NSX Edge as a Transport Node
vSphere Lifecycle Manager with NSX-T
Prepare an NSX-T Cluster with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager on an NSX-T Cluster
NSX-T with vSphere Lifecycle Manager Scenarios
vSphere Lifecycle Manager Failed to Prepare a Host for NSX-T Networking
vSphere Lifecycle Manager Failed to Prepare NSX-T Cluster
Delete a NSX-T Depot on vCenter Server
Host Profile integration with NSX-T
Auto Deploy Stateless Cluster
High-Level Tasks to Auto Deploy Stateless Cluster
Prerequisites and Supported Versions
Create a Custom Image Profile for Stateless Hosts
Associate the Custom Image with the Reference and Target Hosts
Set Up Network Configuration on the Reference Host
Configure the Reference Host as a Transport Node in NSX-T
Extract and Verify the Host Profile
Verify the Host Profile Association with Stateless Cluster
Update Host Customization
Trigger Auto Deployment on Target Hosts
Reboot Hosts Before Applying TNP
Apply TNP on Stateless Cluster
Reboot Hosts After Applying TNP
Scenarios When the Stateless Host Is in the Target Cluster
Scenarios When the Stateless Host Is Outside of the Target Cluster
Troubleshoot Host Profile and Transport Node Profile
Stateful Servers
Supported NSX-T and ESXi versions
Prepare a Target Stateful Cluster
VMkernel Migration with Host Profile Applied
VMkernel Migration without Host Profile Applied
Getting Started with NSX Federation
NSX Federation Key Concepts
NSX Federation Requirements
Configuring the Global Manager and Local Managers
Install the Active and Standby Global Manager
Make the Global Manager Active and Add Standby Global Manager
Add a Location
Importing Configurations from Local Manager
Configure Edge Nodes for Stretched Networking
Remove a Location
Remove a Location When the Global Manager is Unavailable
Getting Started with NSX Cloud
NSX Cloud Architecture and Components
Overview of Deploying NSX Cloud
Deploy NSX-T Data Center On-Prem Components
Install CSM
Join CSM with NSX Manager
Specify CSM IPs for Access by PCG
(Optional) Configure Proxy Servers
(Optional) Set Up vIDM for Cloud Service Manager
Connect your Public Cloud with On-prem NSX-T Data Center
Connect Microsoft Azure with On-prem NSX-T Data Center
Connect AWS with On-prem NSX-T Data Center
Deploy NSX Cloud Components in Microsoft Azure using the NSX Cloud Marketplace Image
Deploy NSX Cloud Components in Microsoft Azure using Terraform scripts
Deploy NSX Cloud Components in Microsoft Azure without using Terraform scripts
Add your Public Cloud Account
Adding your Microsoft Azure Subscription
Generate the Service Principal and Roles
Add your Microsoft Azure Subscription in CSM
Adding your AWS Account
Generate the IAM Profile and PCG Role
Add your AWS Account in CSM
Managing Regions in CSM
NSX Public Cloud Gateway: Architecture and Modes of Deployment
Deploy PCG or Link to a PCG
Deploy PCG in a VNet
Deploy PCG in a VPC
Using PCG with AWS Transit Gateway
Link to a Transit VPC or VNet
Auto-Configurations after PCG Deployment or Linking
Auto-created NSX-T Logical Entities
Auto-created Public Cloud Configurations
Integrate Horizon Cloud Service with NSX Cloud
Auto-Created Entities After Horizon Cloud Integration
(Optional) Install NSX Tools on your Workload VMs
Undeploy or Unlink PCG
Remove the nsx.network tag in the Public Cloud
Disable Quarantine Policy in the NSX Enforced Mode
Delete User-created Logical Entities
Undeploy or Unlink from CSM
Troubleshooting PCG Undeployment
Uninstalling NSX-T Data Center from a Host Transport Node
Verify Host Network Mappings for Uninstall
Migrate Out VMkernels and Physical NICs from a vSphere Distributed Switch
Uninstall NSX-T Data Center from a vSphere Cluster
Uninstall NSX-T Data Center from a Host in a vSphere Cluster
Uninstall NSX-T Data Center from an ESXi Host
Triggering Uninstallation from the vSphere Web Client
Uninstall NSX-T Data Center from a KVM Host
Uninstall NSX-T from a vSphere Lifecycle Manager cluster through NSX Manager
Troubleshooting Installation Issues
Installation Fails Due to Insufficient Space in Bootbank on ESXi Host
NSX Agent Times Out Communicating with NSX Manager