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.

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