Part 3 of the VXLAN Series – Multicast usage in VXLAN
VXLAN Series – Multicast usage in VXLAN – Part 3
VMware vSphere BlogBegin the journey to a private cloud with datacenter virtualizationPost navigation? Using App Firewall with VXLAN NetworksHow Smart Is Your Hadoop? ? Posted on May 6, 2013 by Vyenkatesh Deshpande I covered some basics on Multicast in the last blog entry here. Let’s now take a look how multicast is utilized in VXLAN deployments. During the configuration of VXLAN, it is required to allocate a multicast address range and also define the number of logical Layer 2 networks that will be created. For more details on the configuration steps please refer to the VXLAN Deployment Guide. Ideally, one logical Layer 2 network is associated with one multicast group address. Sixteen million logical Layer 2 networks can be identified…Read More
