NSX-v with Brocade 6740 Hardware VTEP – additional considerations

With Hardware VTEP being implemented in, well, hardware, how things work depends on capabilities of the underlying chipset. This means that when we design solutions using these products, we need to keep these capabilities in mind and configure things accordingly.

In this short post I’ll cover a situation we’ve encountered at one of our customers where things “should” have worked but didn’t, and what was the reason for that.

From the dept of the knowledge arcane: NSX-v with nested ESXi

Nested ESXi is a staple of resource-strapped labs. There is, however, a little something that’s worth keeping in mind when using NSX-v / VXLAN.