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Top Overlay Networks Widget

Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) represents a technology that enables you to segment your networks (as VLANs do), but that also solves the scaling limitation of VLANs and provides benefits that VLANs cannot. VXLAN is often described as an overlay technology because it enables you to stretch Layer 2 connections over an intervening Layer 3 network by encapsulating (tunneling) Ethernet frames in a VXLAN packet that includes IP addresses.

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Top Overlay Networks Widget Summary

The Top Overlay Networks widget displays a summary of the VXLANs in your network in a table. Table 1 displays the details that are displayed in this table.

Table 1: Top Overlay Networks Widget Summary page Field Descriptions

Column

Description

VXLAN

Unique ID of the VXLAN.

Tenant

Name of the tenant that uses the given VXLAN.

Network

IP address and the subnet mask of the network that is assigned to the tenant.

VMs

Number of virtual machines (VMs) that are active for the tenant.

Aggregate Bandwidth

Aggregated bandwidth used by the overlay network for the last 10 minutes.

Click Show Details corresponding to a VXLAN entry to view detailed information about that VXLAN. The Top Overlay Networks Widget Details page opens.

Top Overlay Networks Widget Details

To open the Top Overlay Networks Widget Details page, click Show Details in the Top Overlay Networks Widget table in the Summary View. Top Overlay Networks Widget Details page has two tabs—List View and the Topology View.

The list view displays detailed information about the VMs that are part of the selected overlay network or VXLAN. Table 2 describes the fields in this page.

Table 2: Top Overlay Details page Field Descriptions

Column

Description

VM Name

Name of the VM.

BW Utilization

Average bandwidth utilized by the VM for the last 10 minutes.

Host Name

The ESXi hostname of the VM.

Guest Operating System

Operating system running on the VM.

IP Address

IP address of the VM.

MAC Address

MAC address of the VM.

The Topology view highlights the VMs and the bare metal servers that are part of the selected VXLAN. You can mouse over each entity to view more details.