In this recipe, we will deploy the Distributed Logical Router onto the VMware NSX infrastructure using the vSphere web client. We will use the previously mentioned routing topology to serve as a reference point. In this recipe, we will configure the DLR.
To configure the DLR, the following prerequisites must be met:
- The user must have an NSX enterprise administrator or NSX administrator role
- The local segment ID and transport zone must be configured, as described in Chapter 2, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Switch Networks
- The NSX controllers must be deployed and available
- The ESXi cluster the DLR will be deployed to must be on the same transport zone as the logical switches that will connect to it
- The target ESXi hosts must have sufficient capacity to run the DLR control virtual machine
- The logical switches, as depicted in the preceding routing topology diagram, have been created
- The VXLAN-backed Portgroup (logical switch) is available to...