External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) is configured on the SmartFabric leaf switch interfaces to peer with the Tier-0 gateway on the m01 NSX edge cluster. Figure 2 shows the eBGP autonomous system numbers (ASNs) and IP addresses used in this example and their locations. The example peer interface addresses and ASNs specified here are configured on the m01 NSX Tier-0 gateway during edge cluster deployment.
Table 4. eBGP peer configuration policy examples
Policy name | Peer interface IP address | Peer ASN | BFD | Fabric interconnect | Switch |
1a-tier0-1 | 172.27.11.2 | 65003 | Enable | unchecked | Leaf1A |
1a-tier0-2 | 172.27.11.3 | 65003 | Enable | unchecked | Leaf1A |
1b-tier0-1 | 172.27.12.2 | 65003 | Enable | unchecked | Leaf1B |
1b-tier0-2 | 172.27.12.3 | 65003 | Enable | unchecked | Leaf1B |
Note: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is enabled as a best practice. After deploying the NSX edge cluster, also enable BFD on the Tier-0 gateway in NSX Manager. For details, refer to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 on Dell VxRail.
To configure eBGP, do the following in the SFS UI or OMNI:
Figure 10.
eBGP Tier-0 gateway policies configured
Associate the eBGP policies with the SmartFabric leaf switches as follows:
When complete, the right pane appears as shown:
Figure 11. eBGP configuration applied to switch