Create Transport Zones

Transport zones indicate which hosts and VMs can use a particular network. A transport zone can span one or more host clusters.

As a vSphere administrator, you use the default transport zones or create the following ones:

• An overlay transport zone that is used by the Supervisor Cluster Control Plane VMs.
• A VLAN transport zone for the NSX Edge nodes to use for uplinks to the physical network.

Procedure

1. Log in to the NSX Manager.
2. Select System > Fabric > Transport Zones > Add.
3. Enter a name for the transport zone and optionally a description.
4. Select a traffic type.
   You can select Overlay or VLAN.
   The following transport zones exist by default:

   • A VLAN transport zone with name nsx-vlan-transportzone.
   • An overlay transport zone with name nsx-overlay-transportzone.
5. (Optional) Enter one or more uplink teaming policy names.
   The segments attached to the transport zones use these named teaming policies. If the segments do not find a matching named teaming policy, then the default uplink teaming policy is used.

Results

The new transport zone appears on the Transport Zones page.