(Centralized External Connectivity — Guided Edge Deployment wizard) All preparatory work described in earlier articles has already been completed:— VCF 9 is operational with the full management stack.— pfSense acts as the ToR router and provides external connectivity.— VLANs for management, TEP, and BGP uplinks are in place.— The entire data path (VDS / pfSense) is set to MTU ≥ 1700.— All required TCP/UDP ports for NSX are open. The final step before enabling VCF Automation is to deploy an NSX Edge cluster and a Tier-0 gateway in Active-Standby mode. 0 Prerequisites Component Example value VLAN-TEP (hosts & Edge) 40…