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Set up connectivity from Oracle Cloud VMware Solution NSX-T Overlay segment to other VCN’s in the same region

Introduction

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution allows you to create and manage VMware enabled software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle Cloud VMware Solution integrates VMware on-premises tools, skillsets and processes with public Oracle Cloud services.

Rapidly transpose VMware estates to the cloud without changes to best practices or tools. VMware environments operate in a securely isolated customer tenancy with predictable performance and costs.

The Solution is a fully customer-managed, customer-operated native VMware cloud environment based on VMware Validated Design for use with the public Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Organizations have requirement wherein they create multiple OCI VCN’s (in the same region) to segregate/control the traffic and establish connectivity between them.

This tutorial describes routing Oracle Cloud VMware Solution NSX-T Overlay traffic to an OCI instance deployed on a different VCN in the same region.

 

Objective

This tutorial summarizes how we can set up connectivity from NSX-T backed Overlay segment to other native OCI VCN’s which are in the same region. This approach can be considered for customers who would like to have multiple VCN’s for different workloads and restrict network communication to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDC Overlay segments.

For this tutorial, we have created a Demo-VCN with a public subnet and it will host OCI Windows instance. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDC has been deployed in OCVS-VCN-100. We will connect both the VCN’s to DRG and DRG will route the traffic accordingly.

 

Setup for the Demo VCN and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution VCN

Setup for the Demo VCN

Setup for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution VCN

 

Demo setup  

Task 1: Attach VCN’s to DRG

We begin by attaching both the VCN’s i.e. Demo and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution VCN to the Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG).

  1. Navigate to Networking, Customer Connectivity, Dynamic Routing Gateways and click on the DRG.
  2. Click Virtual Cloud Networks Attachments, and then click Create Virtual Cloud Networks Attachment.
  3. One at a time, choose VCN and assign name (optional).

VCN

 

Task 2: Configure routing on demo-vcn public subnet

We need to add routes on the public subnet route table to forward the traffic to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution NSX-T Overlay segment.

  1. Navigate to Compute, Instances, and click on the demo-vcn instance.
  2. Click on the associated subnet, and then click on the associated route table.
  3. Add the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution overlay segment route pointing to DRG.

Route rules

 

Task 3: Configure routing on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution portal

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution portal offers connectivity workflow tabs which configure connectivity to destinations like On-Premises / Internet / Oracle Services Network and Oracle VCN resources.

  1. Login to the OCI Tenancy, click on the hamburger menu, navigate to Hybrid and then click VMware Solution.

  2. Click on the SDDC, and then click Configure connectivity to your on-premises network.

  3. Enter the SDDC workflow CIDR i.e. NSX-T backed Overlay segment CIDR. As per the above diagram it is 192.168.199.0/24.

  4. Enter the VCN subnet CIDR i.e. 172.21.100.0/24 and then click Next.

  5. The workflow will display the list of entries created in the backend. Click Apply configuration.

    Configuration

The connectivity is established from NSX-T Overlay Segment to OCI VCN subnet and vice-versa.

Connectivity

 

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