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Getting ready

To configure software-based layer 2 bridging, the following prerequisites need to be met:

NSX Manager must be installed.
NSX Controllers must be installed.
VXLAN must be configured.
The logical switch must be created, in this example DB-Tier.

At the time of writing, bridging to the universal logical switch on Cross-vCenter NSX deployment is not supported.

NSX DLR must be deployed. For step-by-step instructions on how to deploy an NSX DLR, see Chapter 3, Configuring VMware NSX Logical Routing.
NSX DLR control VM must be deployed.
dvPortGroup for VLAN bridging must be provisioned on vSphere cluster where NSX DLR control VM resides. In this example, the dvPortGroup is Bridged-Net_RegionA01 with VLAN ID 103 created on a vDS. ...

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