In last year’s VMware homelab NSX series, I’ve showed howto setup a NSX setup with BGP and later with OSPF. This time, I’m going to deploy and configure NSX-T with a static routing setup using single Edge uplinks. NSX-T is used 3.2.2 in the lab environment.
In this lab, we have two ToR switches, configured with VRRP. The ESXi server is physically connected with one uplink “Uplink1” to ToR-1 and with another uplink “Uplink2” to ToR-2.
The Edge Node VM design in the environment is driven by the following goals:
- 1 virtual uplink used (redundancy is provided by ESXi pNICs)
- A single N-VDS per Edge node carrying both overlay and external traffic
The Tier-0 gateway is configured with a HA VIP and sets it default route to the ToR virtual router group IP address. The ToR routes all traffic destined for our Overlay segment to the Tier-0 HA VIP.
The overall topology can be seen in the following diagram.
