HPE’s DCN / Nuage SDN – Part 2 – First Steps Creating Virtual/Overlay Customer Network
In the previous part 1, we have installed basic HPE DCN system on a group of ESXi hosts. But we didn’t actually done anything inside it, so lets fix this by creating a first “HelloWorld” customer that we will call “NetworkGeekStuff” and deploy some virtual machines to this virtual network. In this part we are going to fix that and we will create a very basic virtual customer, a username/password for that customers administrator and create a small 3 tier ( database / internal / dmz) network using HPE DCN’s overlay virtual network. And at the very end, we are going to connect to this network a few virtual machines.
Index of article series:
- HPE’s DCN / Nuage SDN – Part 1 – Introduction and LAB Installation Tutorial
- HPE’s DCN / Nuage SDN – Part 2 – First Steps Creating Virtual/Overlay Customer Network
Starting LAB state
We will start exactly where we ended on previous part 1, but to double-check, I am going to show the main views of my vCenter and VSD environment to show how “empty” it is after a pure install that we did so far. So starting with this, below is my view on vCenter boxes, with Continue reading


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