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

You use the default transport zones or create the following zones:
  • An overlay transport zone that is used by the Supervisor Control Plane VMs for the management network connectivity between NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller and the Service Engines.
  • 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 TRANSPORT ZONE.
  3. Enter a name for the transport zone and optionally a description. For example, overlayTZ.
  4. Select the Overlay traffic type.
    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. Click SAVE
  6. Repeat steps from 2 through 5 to create a transport zone with name vlanTZ and traffic type VLAN.
  7. (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 transport zones you created appear on the Transport Zones page.

Create an IP Pool for Host Tunnel Endpoint IP Addresses

Create IP pools for the ESXi host tunnel endpoints (TEPs). TEPs are the source and destination IP addresses used in the external IP header to identify the ESXi hosts that originate and end the NSX encapsulation of overlay frames.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the NSX Manager.
  2. Select Networking > IP Address Pools > ADD IP ADDRESS POOL.
  3. Enter a name and optionally a description for the IP address pool. For example, ESXI-TEP-IP-POOL.
  4. Click Set.
  5. Select IP Ranges from the ADD SUBNET drop-down menu.
  6. Enter the following IP address pool details.
    Option Description
    IP Ranges Enter the IP allocation range.

    For example, IPv4 Range - 192.168.12.1-192.168.12.60, IPv6 Range - 2001:800::0001-2001:0fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
    CIDR Enter the network address in a CIDR notation.

    For example, 192.23.213.0/24.
  7. Optionally, enter the following details.
    Option Description
    Description Enter a description for the IP range.
    Gateway IP Enter the gateway IP address.

    For example, 192.23.213.253.
    DNS Servers Enter the DNS server address.
    DNS Suffix Enter the DNS suffix.
  8. Click ADD and APPLY.
  9. Click SAVE.

Results

Verify that the TEP IP pools you created are listed in the IP Pool page.

Create an IP Pool for Edge Nodes

Create IP pools for the Edge Nodes. The TEP addresses are not required to be routable. You can use any IP addressing scheme that enables the Edge TEP to talk to the Host TEP.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the NSX Manager.
  2. Select Networking > IP Address Pools > ADD IP ADDRESS POOL.
  3. Enter a name and optionally a description for the IP address pool. For example, EDGE-TEP-IP-POOL.
  4. Click Set.
  5. Enter the following IP address pool details.
    Option Description
    IP Ranges Enter the IP allocation range.

    For example, IPv4 Range - 192.168.12.1-192.168.12.60, IPv6 Range - 2001:800::0001-2001:0fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
    CIDR Enter the network address in a CIDR notation.

    For example, 192.23.213.0/24.
  6. Optionally, enter the following details.
    Option Description
    Description Enter a description for the IP range.
    Gateway IP Enter the gateway IP address.

    For example, 192.23.213.253.
    DNS Servers Enter the DNS server address.
    DNS Suffix Enter the DNS suffix.
  7. Click ADD and APPLY.
  8. Click SAVE.

Results

Verify that the IP pools you created are listed in the IP Pool page.