Recently I have been doing some work with VXLAN with my colleagues Venky Deshpande who is responsible for vCloud Networking and Ranga Maddipudi who is responsible for vCloud Security within our technical marketing team (I call them the vCloud Networking & Security Duo). While working in our lab, I came across several VXLAN commands in ESXCLI that I thought might come in handy when configuring or troubleshooting a VMware VXLAN environment. The new VXLAN namespace in ESXCLI 5.1 provides both VXLAN configuration details as well network statistics for an individual ESXi host.

Before jumping straight into the VXLAN commands, here is a quick diagram of our VXLAN lab environment. There are a total of four ESXi hosts, two in Cluster1 on VLAN 2000 and two in Cluster2 on VLAN 2010. There are also three vWire’s with segment ID 5000, 5001 and 5002 which are consumed by several virtual machines.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Useful VXLAN commands in ESXCLI 5.1- Uptime (VMware and Business Continuity)