Provisioning NSX Load Balancers with Registration in NIOS

If you load balance your application traffic by using the VMware NSX platform with vRealize Automation, you can provision NSX load balancers, and the NSX Edge will get IP addresses for external and internal interfaces from NIOS. The internal interface IP is the router DHCP option. The external interface is assigned from NIOS.

This section explains how to perform a sample NSX provisioning use case.

Prerequisites:

• You have deployed the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for VMware as described in Deploying Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for VMware.
• You have the VMware NSX platform integrated with your VMware environment.
• Everything is configured correctly with respect to NSX. This includes:
  — A pre-configured transport zone for NSX. The transport zone is a logical switch span across which the NSX is extended, for example, a datacenter or a set of clusters.
  — Logical switches.
• You have pre-configured an IPv4 network on NIOS and set up IPv4 DHCP options for the network. The DHCP options should include the router IP address. This is the virtual IP that will be assigned to the load balancer through the network profile in vRA.
  
  
  

To provision NSX load balancers with registration in NIOS, do the following:

• Set up the network profile to use with NSX, as described in Setting Up a Network Profile.
• Make an IP reservation in the DHCP range, as described in Making a Reservation of the IP Address.
• Create a blueprint, as described in Creating a Blueprint for the NSX Load Balancer.
• Create an NSX provisioning service in vRA Catalog, as described in Creating a VM Request Service in vRealize Catalog.
• Provision NSX VMs, as described in Provisioning NSX Virtual Machines.
• Scale the NSX deployment out and in, as described in Scaling the NSX Deployment.