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 distributed switch (vDS) should be configured.
- The VMware ESXi host(s) within a cluster must be attached to a common vDS.
- The IP addresses for VTEP VMkernel should be allocated
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