VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5

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Prepare Local Manager for NSX Federation in
VMware Cloud Foundation

To prepare for NSX Federation, you create an IP pool in the Local Manager. The Global Manager assigns IP addresses from this pool to the Edge nodes for remote tunnel end point (RTEP) interfaces. You also set the global fabric MTU to match the end-to-end MTU between instances.
  1. In a web browser, log in to Local Manager cluster for the management domain or VI workload domain at https://
    lm_vip_fqdn
    /).
  2. On the main navigation bar, click 
    Networking
    .
  3. Create an IP pool for RTEP in Local Manager
    1. In the navigation pane, select
      IP Address Pools
       and click
      Add IP address pool
      .
    2. Enter a name.
    3. Under Subnets, click
      Set
      .
    4. In the Set Subnets dialog box, click
      Add subnet
      IP Ranges
      .
    5. Configure the settings and click
      Add
      .
    6. Click
      Add
       and then click
      Apply
      .
    7. Click
      Save
      .
  4. Configure MTU for RTEP.
    1. On the main navigation bar, click
      System
      .
    2. Select
      Fabric
      Settings
      .
    3. Under
      Global Fabric Settings
      , Click
      Edit
       for Remote Tunnel Endpoint.
    4. Enter
      9000
       in MTU and click
      Save
      .

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