In order for the hardware VTEP gateway to be discovered by the VMware NSX, an OVSDB connection must be setup between each hardware VTEP gateway and the NSX controller, which we will cover in this recipe. In this example, we will setup the OVSDB server to enable the HSC service on a hardware VTEP gateway leaf-01a
and connect it to the NSX controller running the OVSDB client with the IP address 192.168.110.16
on port 6640
for OVSDB, as shown in the following screenshot:
To add a hardware VTEP gateway to VMware NSX, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:
- NSX Manager must be deployed and configured
- NSX Controllers must be deployed
- VXLAN must be configured in NSX using port
4789