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  • 1.  Trunk links in vCD

    Posted Jun 05, 2019 07:38 AM

    Morning All,

    I use vCD and within vCD we use third party firewalls (i.e. not NSX Edges).  I want to present my Org with a trunk link in an official and supported VMware method.

    Now I'm sure this is the article everyone will find:

    https://anthonyspiteri.net/quick-post-vlan-trunking-vcloud-director/

    While I'm sure this will work, it doesn't seem official.

    vCD 9.0 documentation claims trunk links are now supported but I can't find the documention that tells me how to implement it as best practise.

    Can anyone find the documention or method of configuration?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Trunk links in vCD

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 13, 2019 08:53 AM

    If you are leveraging external networks for VM's , its a straight forward process - Trunk the portgroup and configure the external VLAN in vCloud and connect the Virtual Machines.



  • 3.  RE: Trunk links in vCD
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 18, 2019 11:11 AM

    Hi,

    The following whitepaper officially confirm that vCD supports Trunked VLAN baacked Networks.

    https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vcloud/vmware-vcloud-director-whats-new-9-0-white-pape…

    As mentioned in the screenshot first we've to create a Prortgroup in vCenter with Trunked VLANs. Please follow the steps documented in Anthony's blog which you quoted.

    I've tried it in the lab and it worked fine. I could create two External networks in vCD backed with Portgroups which has Trunked VLAN configured.