Creating your first subnet

Google Cloud VMware Engine creates a network for each private cloud and uses VLANs for network management. For workload virtual machines (VMs), you create subnets as network segments on NSX Manager for your private cloud. VMware Engine includes NSX for workload networking and security features such as microsegmentation and firewall policies. This page explains how to create subnets for your workloads using NSX Manager.

Before you begin

This quickstart assumes that you have done the following:

  1. Created a Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud. You can create one by completing the following quickstart: Creating your first private cloud.
  2. Allocated address ranges in your network for the following purposes:
    • A DHCP service
    • A subnet for the NSX workload network segment

Access NSX Manager from the VMware Engine portal

The process of creating a subnet happens in NSX, which you access through VMware Engine:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Private clouds page.

    Go to Private clouds

  2. Click Select a project and then select the organization, folder, or project where the private cloud is located.

  3. Click the private cloud name where you want to create the subnet.

  4. Under Management appliances, click the URL corresponding to NSX Manager.

  5. When prompted, enter your sign-in credentials. As a reminder, you can retrieve generated credentials from the private cloud details page.

If you've set up vIDM and connected it to an identity source, such as Active Directory, use your identity source credentials instead.

Set up DHCP service for the subnet

Before you can create a subnet, set up a DHCP service:

  1. In NSX, go to