In this recipe, we will deploy the ESG onto the VMware NSX infrastructure using the vSphere web client. We will use the network topology depicted in the introduction to serve as a reference point. In this recipe, we will also configure the ESG for HA.
To deploy the NSX Edge Services Gateway, the following prerequisites must be met:
- The user must have an enterprise administrator or NSX administrator role
- The NSX controllers must be deployed and available
- A router ID must be reserved; typically the transit logical switch IP address is sufficient
- The VXLAN-backed Portgroup (logical switch) is available to be used for the HA interface
- The Transit logical switch (LS-TRANSIT) has been created
- The NSX-backed PortGroup has been configured on the vSphere distributed switch