NSX with ECMP configuration guide

When you create a VDC, Abiquo will create the DLRs and ESGs, and connect them to the tenant network to provide gateway, DHCP, routing and firewall services to the VMs inside the VDC.

NSX ECMP diagram

Limitation

NSX ECMP does not support load balancers.

Abiquo properties

The following properties are global to the platform and you must configure them in the DC Remote Services appliance:

Name	Description
abiquo.nsx.transport-zone	The transport zone where the networks created by Abiquo will be attached
abiquo.nsx.edge.cluster-id	Identifier (in VCenter) of the cluster where Abiquo will deploy the DLRs and ESGs
abiquo.nsx.edge.datastore-id	CSV list of identifiers (in VCenter) of the datastores where Abiquo can deploy the ESG appliances according to the datastore-policy
abiquo.nsx.edge.datastore-policy	Allocation policy for selection of datastores to deploy ESG appliances. Default: leastvms Range: leastvms, mostspace

The following properties can be configured:

globally: for one VDC per DC only. Use the "abiquo." prefix and configure in the DC Remote Services properties
per tenant: for one VDC per tenant only. See Manage tenant properties
per VDC, as context properties: for more than one VDC per tenant. See Create more than one VDC in NSX ECMP

Name	Description
nsx.gateway.network-id	VLAN tag of the tenant network where the ESGs will be connected. Abiquo will create a distributed port group if none exists for that VLAN
nsx.gateway.network	Network CIDR of the tenant network
nsx.gateway.datacenter	The Datacenter where Abiquo will create the distributed port group for the tenant VLAN, if missing
nsx.gateway.dvs	The distributed virtual switch where Abiquo will create the distributed port group for the tenant VLAN, if missing
nsx.gateway.bgp.as	Identifier of the AS used in the tenant network
nsx.gateway.bgp.from-edge-password	BGP password for gateway from Edge
nsx.edge.uplink.ips	Comma separated list of the IP addresses to assign to the uplink interfaces of the ESGs. The number of IP addresses here will determine the number of ESGs Abiquo will deploy when creating a Virtual datacenter
nsx.edge.bgp.peers	Comma separated list of the IP addresses to be configured as BGP neighbor of each ESG uplink
nsx.edge.bgp.as	Identifier of the AS used by the ESGs
nsx.edge.bgp.from-local-password	BGP password from local
nsx.edge.bgp.hold-down-timer	Hold down timer value for the BGP between the ESGs and the tenant network
nsx.edge.bgp.keep-alive-timer	Keep alive timer for the BGP between the ESGs and the tenant network
nsx.edge.bgp.weight	Weight of each neighbor in the BGP between the ESGs and the tenant network
nsx.local.bgp.as	Identifier of the AS used by the local DLR
nsx.local.bgp.hold-down-timer	Hold down timer value for the BGP between the DLR and the ESGs
nsx.local.bgp.keep-alive-timer	Keep alive timer for the BGP between the DLR and the ESGs
nsx.local.bgp.weight	Weight of each neighbor in the BGP between the DLR and the ESGs
nsx.transit.network	Network CIDR of the transit network
nsx.virtualwire.teaming	Use this property to set the teaming policy for the portGroup that is the backing for the VirtualWire when it is created. This value cannot be changed after it is created. Default: "failover_explicit" Values: "failover_explicit", "loadbalance_ip", "loadbalance_loadbased", "loadbalance_srcid", or "loadbalance_srcmac"
abiquo.nsx.edge.esg.size	Size of the ESG appliances. Values: compact, large, quadlarge, xlarge
abiquo.nsx.edge.dhcp.size	Size of the ESG appliance to use when creating the DHCP Edge for the virtual datacenter. Values: compact, large, quadlarge, xlarge
nsx.edge.description	Description to configure in the edges created by Abiquo.