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.

1. Relative port-groups in vCenter

• Edge-PG
  

 

 

• Uplink-PG

 

2. Create Pools

• Create 2 pools in this case,

            1. Management: 192.168.1.x/24

            2. Edge Pool: 10.4.4.x/24

 

 

3. Create the Edge and Uplink profiles

• Edge Profile
  

• Uplink Profile

 

4. Create the Transport Zone profile

 

5. Deploy an Edge appliance

• Deploy the Edge appliance with the Pools we created above.

•  Create Edge Cluster

6. Create Edge-Trunk Segment

7. Create T0-Transit Segment

8. Create T0 Router

 

 

• Create Interface on T0

 

 

• Add Static Routes to the T0

• Add Next Hop
  

9. Create T-1 Router

10. Create 2 Segments for testing

 

11. Create a Static Route in the VYOS

Deploy the VMs on each Segment we created above and perform a ping test.