In the previous article of the VMware homelab series, I’ve configured the core vSphere services. This time, I’m going to deploy and configure NSX-T.
The setup is a typical topology with two NSX edges to route to the ToR routers (VyOS appliances) via BGP. I’m currently using NSX-T 3.1.2 in the lab environment.
The overal topology can be seen in the followoing diagram.
The Edge Node VM design in the lab is driven by the following goals:
- 2 pNICs available
- A single N-VDS per edge node carrying both overlay and external traffic
- Load balancing of overlay traffic with multi-TEP configuration
- Deterministic North-South traffic pattern
