Introduction to external networks

External Networks belong to a single enterprise and in private cloud they belong at the datacenter infrastructure level.

To create an external network

Define the external network in the network infrastructure (e.g. VLANs in the switch or in a network manager.
Create the corresponding network in the multi-cloud platform with the same tag (e.g. VLAN tag or VXLAN tag).

The IP addresses that you use in external networks may be private or public addresses. So you may use these networks to communicate between VDCs of the same tenant or with networks outside of the platform. You can also define the same network in more than one datacenter in the platform.

In vCloud Director, you can onboard, create, synchronize, and delete external networks at the the Virtual datacenter level. In vCloud external networks may represent different networks, such as Org vDC networks routed through the Edge.