Routed Network Profiles have a very specific function. Routed Network Profiles are used in conjunction with NSX and Multi-Machine vCAC blueprints. Routed Network Profiles are used to define the networks that will be used by the Multi-Machine component machines. These networks will sit behind a deployed NSX Edge Gateway that is deployed as part of the Multi-Machine deployment.
While creating a Routed Network profile you will need to select an External Network Profile for the Routed Network profile to use. The External Network Profile is used to assign the IP address to the Uplink Interface of the NSX Edge Gateway that is deployed as part of a Multi-Machine Request. Routed Network Profiles also consists of IP Network Ranges, not IP address ranges.
IP Network Ranges are used to allocate a Range of IP’s to be used for a specific component Machine. An example would be if you have a web server component in a Multi-Machine blueprint and you want to deploy two of them. If the range was a /30 network range you would have two IP addresses available for your two web servers
Below is a diagram representing the Architecture of NSX when using Routed Network Profiles in vCAC. The External Network Profile that is defined in a Routed Network Profile if depicted as the Purple network in the diagram. As you can see in the diagram this is the Logical Network that connects the vCAC deployed routers to the pre-existing NSX Edge. The Green, Orange, and Blue networks represent the Routed Networks that are assigned from the Routed Network Profile.
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