Tag Archives: Hardware VTEP

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.

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Serving bandwidth-hungry VMs with DC fabrics and NSX for vSphere

It is fairly common for VMs to talk to SMB / NFS shares hosted by physical storage arrays, or send their backups to physical appliances.

In this blog post, we’ll have a look at connectivity options for this use case.

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