If you visited any of my previous blogs, you know that I have decided on 3 class B subnets for all my home lab networking needs. The final subnet I will need is for all my physical and virtual networking components. As I mentioned in other posts, networking segmentation is up to the individual building the lab to determine how expansive they want to get.
I have already discussed the infrastructure and nested subnets that I will be using in this lab, in order to get those subnets to talk with each other I need to have the networking backbone to support all those separate layer 3 networks. I have decided to include my physical Ubiquiti routing with the NSX tunnel endpoints, BGP routing and the VyOS virtual uplinks so that these will be isolated from any of the physical hosts or virtual machines I am running.
| /27 Unifi Routing | DHCP Pool hosted by Dream Machine Pro for Ubiquiti components |
| /30 Virtual Router WAN | This is going to be used for the VyOS uplink to the physical network |
| /30 Virtual Router LAN | This is for the virtual side of the VyOS router, not necessary but give me a connection on both the LAN and WAN side for troubleshooting |
| /29 BGP Uplink1 Ubiquiti | BGP subnet on the Dream Machine to connect to the NSX running on my physical VCF stack |
| /29 BGP Uplink2 Ubiquiti | BGP subnet on the Dream Machine to connect to the NSX running on my physical VCF stack (At this time Dream Machine Pro only supports 1 subnet for BGP but NSX wants 2, this is a dummy subnet currently) |
| /29 Virtual Router BGP Uplink1 | BGP subnet on the VyOS router to connect NSX running on nested VCF Stack |
| /29 Virtual Router BGP Uplink2 | Secondary BGP subnet on the VyOS router to connect NSX running on nested VCF Stack |
| /27 Physical Host TEP | This is for the physical host tunnel endpoints used by NSX |
| /27 Physical Edge TEP | This is for the physical host NSX Edge tunnel endpoints |
| /27 Nested Host TEP | This is for the nested host tunnel endpoints used by NSX |
| /27 Nested Edge TEP | This is for the nested host NSX Edge tunnel endpoints |
This is the final subnet I need to start building my lab, I am not going to get into the Dream Machine pro configuration as everyone likes to setup their systems differently and I have my system supporting a lab and home internet together so I don’t want to change my current configurations.
I will post a build guide for the VyOS router in the future to help with building the nested environment.