Configuring VXLAN Networking

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	RegionA01-vDS-COMP
VLAN	130
MTU	1,600
VMKNic IP addressing	IP Pool
IP pool details	Name: VTEP_RegionA01-COMP01 Gateway: 192.168.130.1 Prefix Length: 24 Static IP Pool: 192.168.130.51-192.168.130.53
VMKNic teaming policy	Failover
VTEP	1

Getting ready

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...