vCloud Director | NSX or vSphere | Notes |
Provider VDC | NSX Transport Zone | The configuration of a PVDC causes the creation of a Transport Zone within NSX. The new Transport Zone’s Control Plane Mode is initially set to multicast and should be changed from the NSX user interface or API immediately if this is not the preferred setting. |
External Network | vSphere Port Group | An external network is created in the data center infrastructure, vCenter Server networking, and vCloud Director Cloud resources dialogues. See Appendix A: Provisioning an External Network in vCloud Director for more details. |
Edge Services Gateway | NSX Edge | An Edge Services Gateway created with the Org VDC configuration results in the creation of an NSX Edge. The initial name given to the Edge Services Gateway in vCloud Director is encoded into the NSX Edge name together with a UUID field to ensure unique names across tenants. |
Org VDC Networks | NSX Logical Switch / vSphere Port Group | The creation of an Org VDC Network in vCloud Director results in the creation of an NSX logical switch with the initial Org VDC network name and a UUID in its name. This then results in a dvPortGroup being created in vSphere with the logical switch name and VXLAN network (segment) ID encoded into its name. |