Recently I was fortunate enough to participate as a speaker in the VMware's prestigious forum VMware Explore 2023 (formerly VMworld). I presented a session along with my colleague Suresh T.
The session was about how customers can migrate large amount of workloads conveniently with careful planning and minimum impact to production workload.
It was a exciting to meet lot of known faces from the company and customers.
This is however not a new topic and not the first time. Writing this for the people who have the vCloud Director based lab environments. I was talking to someone in my team on this and thought of doing this myself and share the experience through this blog. I will walk-through on how VCF can be deployed in the nested environment on a vAPP in the vCloud Director based environment.
Lets take a look at the diagram first and see what are we trying to do here,
As you can see above, we would have a vSphere environment with all components setup and on top of that there is a vCloud Director based infrastructure on which Users will create vAPPs consisting of VMs.
In this post we will create NSX-T home lab using static routes. This is for my own reference, you can interprets these steps as per your requirements.
Bill of Material
1. vSphere 7.0 U1
2. NSX-T 3.1.x
3. VYos latest
4. vCloud Director 10.1
Network details
As you can notice above, I am using VyOS for VLANs and routing networks. Here are the networks in VyOS with their respective VLANs.
I am using single uplink for each network.
