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Mastering KVM Virtualization
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Mastering KVM Virtualization

by Humble Devassy Chirammal, Prasad Mukhedkar, Anil Vettathu
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
9h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring Open vSwitch tunnels with VxLan

The following diagram represents two instances running on two separate hosts connected by a VxLan tunnel. Also illustrated are the required supporting physical and virtual components. VTEP interfaces allows us to create Layer 2 network over layer 2.

Configuring Open vSwitch tunnels with VxLan

The example depicted earlier steps through the creation of a VXLaN tunnel between two OVS bridges running on two separate bare metal hosts named KVMhost1 and KVMhost2.

KvmHOST1 host side configuration

We have to first create a virtual tunnel endpoint and then connect it to the virtual tunnel endpoint created on a second host to form the tunnel. The following steps ...

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ISBN: 9781784399054