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Trunk links in vCD

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

Chris Noon | CCDP | CCNP | VCDX 289
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Sreejesh_D
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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-what...

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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.

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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.

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Sree | VCIX-5X| VCAP-5X| VExpert 6x|Cisco Certified Specialist
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Sreejesh_D
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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-what...

pastedImage_2.png

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.

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