In this recipe, we will show you how to extend VMware NSX logical switch to a hardware VTEP Gateway port. In this example, we will bridge a logical switch called DB-Tier
to leaf-01a
hardware VTEP gateway on the physical port Eth1/11
on VLAN 203
, as shown in the following screenshot:
To configure a hardware VTEP gateway for layer 2 bridging, the following prerequisites need to be met:
- NSX Manager must be deployed and configured
- NSX Controllers must be deployed
- VXLAN must be configured
- NSX logical switch must be created
- Hardware switch controller must be added into VMware NSX
Before the hardware port is attached to the relevant logical switch, VXLAN and OVSDB configuration must be completed on the hardware switch.