The VXLAN VIB is installed as part of the NSX host preparation but it is not ready to use until we configure VXLAN networking. In this recipe, we will prepare a vSphere cluster for VXLAN:
Attributes | Value |
vDS |
|
VLAN | 130 |
MTU | 1,600 |
VMKNic IP addressing | IP Pool |
IP pool details | Name: Gateway: Prefix Length: Static IP Pool: |
VMKNic teaming policy | Failover |
VTEP | 1 |
To configure VXLAN networking, the following prerequisites need to be satisfied:
- The NSX Manager must be deployed.
- The NSX controllers must be deployed.
- The vSphere cluster should be prepared for NSX.
- The physical network should be configured with a minimum MTU of 1,600 bytes.
- The physical network should have a VLAN for VTEP VMkernel. In a production environment, VTEP VMkernel network should be in its own unique IP subnet.
- The physical network ports facing ESXi hosts
vmnics
should be tagged with VLAN for VTEP VMkernel. - The vSphere virtual...