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Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on VxRail
Executive summary VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Requirements and Use Cases VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail workload domain planning Data center and network requirements
Introduction
Data center rack space requirements
Data center networking
Network switch selection
Switch port capacity
Switch port type
Jumbo frames
Multicast
Border Gateway Protocol
Node placement for multi-rack deployments
Hardware VTEP for multi-rack deployments
Network services
Storage Services
Cloud Foundation on VxRail high-level design decisions Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network preparation VxRail Cluster deployment preparation Prepare for VMware Cloud Foundation Management VI Workload Domain Prepare for Cloud Foundation VI workload domain Prepare for NSX edge gateway services Prepare for Cloud Foundation Application Virtual Network Cloud Foundation on VxRail housekeeping tasks Appendix A: Cloud Foundation on VxRail checklist Appendix B: Cloud Foundation on VxRail footprints for sizing Appendix C: Cloud Foundation on VxRail Networks Appendix D: VxRail network configuration Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration Appendix F: VI workload domain configuration settings Appendix G: Edge gateway configuration Appendix H: Application virtual network configuration Appendix I: Sample switch configuration settings References

Border Gateway Protocol

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Border Gateway Protocol

  • Cloud Foundation on VxRail leverages NSX edge gateways to serve as the boundary point between the physical and virtual networks. This gateway is the passageway for traffic external to the data center to communicate with the virtual workload running on Cloud Foundation on VxRail. To enable routing between the physical and virtual networks, the upstream physical network must support the Border Gateway Protocol. The NSX edge gateways require BGP adjacency to peer with upstream routing services.

    This figure shows the border gateway protocol peering with physical and virtual routes.

    Figure 14.    Physical and virtual route peering with the Border Gateway Protocol

    Verify that Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing is supported on the switches to optimize traffic on these pathways.