Transport zones and profiles are building blocks to prepare hosts for NSX networking. What to read next Create Transport Zones Transport zones dictate which hosts transport nodes and, therefore, which VMs can participate in the use of a particular network. A transport zone does this by limiting the hosts that can see a segment—and, therefore, which VMs can be attached to the segment. A transport zone can span one or more host clusters. Also, a host transport node can be associated to multiple transport zones. Create an IP Pool for Tunnel Endpoint IP AddressesNSX Transport Nodes are configured with tunnel endpoint (TEP pool) IP addresses. Tunnel endpoints are the source and destination IP addresses used in the external IP header to identify the hypervisor hosts originating and end the NSX encapsulation of overlay frames. You can also use either DHCP or manually configured IP pools for tunnel endpoint IP addresses. Enhanced Data PathEnhanced Data Path (EDP) is a networking stack mode, which when configured provides superior network performance. It is primarily targeted for NFV workloads, which offer performance benefits leverging DPDK capability. Guidance to Set Maximum Transmission UnitGet guidance on how to set the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) value in the different objects or profiles in NSX. Configuring ProfilesProfiles allow you to consistently configure identical capabilities for network adapters across multiple hosts or nodes. Prepare a vSphere Distributed Switch for NSXBefore you configure an NSX transport node using vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) as a host switch, ensure that the VDS created on a VMware vCenter 7.0 or a later version is configured to manage NSX traffic. Add a Transport Node Profile A transport node profile is a template to define configuration that is applied to a group of hosts that are part of a VMware vCenter cluster. It is not applied to prepare standalone hosts. Prepare VMware vCenter cluster hosts as transport nodes by applying a transport node profile. Transport node profiles define transport zones, member hosts, switch configuration including uplink profile, IP assignment, mapping of physical NICs to uplink virtual interfaces and so on.
