The NSX Edge provides routing services and connectivity to networks that are external to the NSX-T Data Center deployment. VMware recommends deploying a cluster of two NSX Edge nodes for high availability.
NSX Edges are deployed on VxRail nodes connected to the border leafs. In this deployment, NSX Edges are deployed on hosts in Rack 1.
The NSX Edge VMs are deployed as follows.
- The screen appears as shown.
Figure 28. NSX Edge switch settings
Repeat steps 2 through 8 above for the second NSX Edge VM with the following changes:
- Name – nsxedge02
- Hostname/FQDN – nsxedge02.dell.lab
- Deploy to a different host in Rack 1
- Management IP – 172.18.11.70/24
- Static IP List – 172.27.13.4, 172.27.13.5
When the deployment of both NSX Edges is complete, the Configuration State column shows Success and the Node Status column shows Up for both, as shown in the following figure:
