Manually checking VIB installation

In this section we perform manual verification that the VIBs have been successfully installed.

  1. SSH onto an ESXi host.
  2. Check whether VXLAN VIB modules have been installed by executing the following command:
esxcli software vib get --vibname esx-vxlan
  1. You will receive an output similar to the following:
[root@vSphere:~]    esxcli software vib get --vibname esx-vxlan
VMware_bootbank_esx-vxlan_6.0.0-0.0.4987429
   Name: esx-vxlan
   Version: 6.0.0-0.0.4987429
   Type: bootbank
   Vendor: VMware
   Acceptance Level: VMwareCertified
   Summary: Vxlan and host tool
   Description: This package loads module and configures firewall for vxlan networking.
   ReferenceURLs:
   Creation Date: 2017-01-27
   Depends: esx-base >= 6.0, esx-base ...

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