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  • 1.  VMware Aria Automation and NSX integration

    Posted Feb 10, 2025 10:32 AM
    Edited by zoomprofile Feb 10, 2025 10:36 AM

    Hi everybody,

    after upgrade to VCF, we are trying to integrate Aria Automation 8.18.1 with NSX 4.2.1.2 for creating on-demand overlay segments during blueprint deployment. Is this even supported?

    I have created just simple Network Profile identified with tag, marked as "on-demand", but without router or anything else, just overlay transport zone, static address assignment. After I have created blueprint with vSphere VM (no cloud agnostic one) and NSX network assigned to it with type "private" which should be on-demand. But each time I try to deploy just getting error "Could not find any profile to match network 'Cloud_NSX_Network_1' of type 'PRIVATE' with constraints '[NSX_DRBD]'".  (NSX_DRBD is our tag)

    I have though that this is a primary purpose of NSX integration into Aria Automation, to get on-demand overlay segments created. Documentation is also not telling anything and Broadcom support really asked me "if I've read any documentation that its written this is supported and they think its not supported".

    Network profile:

     

    Blueprint:

    formatVersion: 1
    inputs: {}
    resources:
      Cloud_vSphere_Machine_1:
        type: Cloud.vSphere.Machine
        properties:
          imageRef: vra-template-empty-vm-drbd-for-pxe-efi
          cpuCount: 1
          totalMemoryMB: 1024
          networks:
            - network: ${resource.Cloud_NSX_Network_1.id}
      Cloud_NSX_Network_1:
        type: Cloud.NSX.Network
        properties:
          networkType: private
          constraints:
            - tag: NSX_DRBD
    

    Result of test or deployment

    Thanks