5.7 NSX Provider Edge Independent of vCloud Director
VMware NSX components can be introduced into service provider cloud offerings independent of the cloud management platform to include provider-facing functionality as highlighted in the following figure.
Figure 14. Provider Edge Configuration Independent of vCloud Director Platform
An NSX Edge services gateway called the Provider Edge is introduced to leverage all of the VMware NSX functionality, such as L2VPN and L2 bridging. The Provider Edge provides the VLAN-to-VXLAN routing function (VLAN101 to vCloud Director external network VXLAN5001), as the Edge Gateway did in the previous use case. This allows for an additional level of separation of the networking and security functions between the provider (transit transport zone) and the tenant (provider VDC transport zone) environments.
