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.

OOTB Infoblox IPAM with vRA 7.1 - Setup Guide

Since this is an Integration part so my assumption is that you have fair amount of experience with Infoblox IPAM NIOS appliance and vRealize Automation. Here I am going to use the recent release of vRealize Automation version 7.1 in this blog.

Virtual Networking

MAC Address Change

When set to Allowed,

1. Virtual Switch will allow the Guest OS to change the MAC address of the Virtual Network Adaptor.
2. In short, if ‘Effective MAC’ is different from the ‘Initial MAC’, the traffic will still be allowed.
3. The flow of network traffic is from Virtual Switch to VM.

When set to Rejected,

What is VXLAN?

VXLAN stands for Virtual Extensible LAN for a start.

You will come across this term 'VXLAN' very often when you go along vCloud environment. It is a very large topic and discussion on this can go on for many hours on this.