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Creating Virtual Router

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Description

This section guides administrators in creating virtual routers.

Virtual routers support the following features:

• Layer 3 network port, VLAN sub-interface (support IPv4 and IPv6)

• Static routing (support IPv4 and IPv6)

• Source Address Translation (SNAT), Destination Address Translation (DNAT) (only supports IPv4)

• Policy routing (supports IPv4 and IPv6)

• Access Control

• DHCPv4 and DHCPv6

• DNS proxy

• High availability HA

• Specify the running position

Precautions

  1. The router can be directly connected to the edge interface port group.
  1. The router is connected to the Layer 2 virtual machine switch to connect to the virtual machine.
  2. When the router is interconnected with other Layer 3 devices, such as routers and firewalls, a Layer 2 switch must be connected in the middle.
  3. A single virtual router runs on a single node, enabling redundancy through failover HA.

Prerequisites

None.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Networking > Topology, and click Edit.

  1. Drag the Edge Virtual Router from the left to the network topology, and click Apply Changes.

  1. Click Settings to enter the configuration interface of the virtual router.

  1. Click New under the Interface tab to configure the network interface and VLAN subinterface. The interface IP address supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

  1. Click New under the Static Route tab to configure a static route. Static routes support IPv4 and IPv6.

  1. Click New under the Source NAT tab to configure SNAT, and click New under the Destination NAT tab to configure DNAT. Source address translation and destination address translation only support IPv4 addresses.

  1. Click New under the Policy Based Routing tab to configure PBR, which supports IPv4 and IPv6.

  1. Under the Access Control tab, click New to configure an access control policy.

  1. Under the DHCP tab, click Add IP Address to configure the address range of the DHCP IP pool (both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported). You can view the currently assigned IPv4 address information in DHCPv4. In DHCPv6, you can view the currently assigned IPv6 address information.

  1. Under the DNS tab, check the Enable DNS proxy checkbox and click OK to configure the Preferred DNS and Alternate DNS.
  2. Under the Advanced tab, configure the HA and running location of the virtual router.

• HA: If HA is enabled, a second router will be built on another node and synchronize data in real-time. If one node fails, the second router will take over seamlessly. However, synchronizing data between the two routers will consume extra network bandwidth.

• Router  Running on Node: By default, the node where the router runs is automatically selected according to the settings on the following page. You can change the current node running the router as per your need.