In this blog post, I will show you how to register the NSX-T edge with the NSX-T Manager from the nsxcli command line. In my previous post, we have seen how to deploy the NSX-T Edge on the ESXi host with the OVF Template.  If you have missed my previous, links here in the Related posts section.

Releated posts:

• NSX-T 2.1 Complete video series: 
• NSX-T 2.1 Part 01: Introduction to NSX-T
• NSX-T 2.1: Part-02 NSX-T Architecture
• NSX-T 2.1: Part-03 Deploying NSX-T Manager Virtual Machine on ESXi host
• NSX-T 2.1: Part-04 Configuring NSX-T Control cluster
• NSX-T 2.1: Part 05 Deploying NSX-T Edge node on ESXi

Step-by-step procedure:

Once the NSX-T Edges are deployed, connect to the NSX-T edge node via Putty.exe and login with the admin credentials.

From the cli, run the following command to register the edge with the NSX Manager.

• Register NSX-T Edge with NSX Manager:

join management-plane <nsx-manager-ip> username admin password <admin-password> thumbprint <nsx-manager-thumbprint>

• NSX-Manager Thumbprint for NSX-T Edge registration:

<nsxmgr-01a> get certificate api thumbprint

NSX-T Edge Registration Example:

<edge-01a>join management-plane 192.168.110.201 username admin password VMware1! thumbprint ba3b758c2cca2ff78601d150e40219b3143390f6eb857fea3f656a9b5aac5985

Once the NSX-T Edge is registered with the NSX Manager you can find the NSX-T Edge node in the NSX Manager GUI.

1. Login to the NSX Manager with the admin credentials.
2. Click Fabric
3. Click Nodes and then click on Edges tab

From the Edges tab, you can see that the edge-01a is registered with the NSX Manager. You will find the following details of the NSX edge node.

• Edge Name: Name of the edge node edge-01a
• Edge ID: UUID of the edge
• Deployment Type: Physical or Virtual
• Management IP: NSX Manager IP
• Host: Host information
• Deployment Status: Node Ready
• Controller Connectivity: [Not available-if the edge is not yet configured as Transport Node]
• Manager Connectivity: Up
• Transport Node: Transport Node status, not configured if the node is not yet configured as a transport node
• Edge Cluster: Edge cluster name
• Logical Routers: Logical Routers configured on the Edge node

These are the steps to register the NSX edge node with the NSX manager deployed in a VM form factor on the ESXi. These same steps will be used to register the NSX Edge node deployed on the bare-metal servers as well.

It is also possible to configure the NSX-Edge node from the NSX Manager in a vSphere environment, if the vCenter Server is registered as a compute manager. I will cover this in my next blog post. Thank you..