VCF on vCloud Director

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.

 

NSXT lab using Static Routes

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.