Monitor VXLAN

The esxcli network vswithch dvs vmware vxlan namespace supports commands for exploring VXLAN configuration details.

For a more detailed example of this functionality, see the VMware vSphere blog post about the topic.

Procedure

  1. List all available VXLAN vNetwork Distributed Switches. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan list
  2. View the VXLAN statistics level. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan config stats get
  3. Change the statistics level, for example, from 0 to 1. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan config stats set --level 1
    You can decide to filter statistics as follows.
    • For a vNetwork Distributed Switch, localized to an ESXi host
    • For a VTEP VMkernel interface
    • For a VXLAN segment ID
    • For a vNetwork Distributed Switch port ID
  4. View statistics for a specific vNetwork Distributed Switch. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan config stats list --vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS
  5. View statistics for a VXLAN segment ID.
    • List the available segment IDs. 
      esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network list -vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS
    • View the network statistics for a particular segment ID. 
      esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network stats list --vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS --vxlan-id 5000
    • Retrieve network mapping if some virtual machine communication is occurring. 
      esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network mapping list --vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS --vxlan-id 5000
  6. View VXLAN statistics for a VDS Port ID. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network port list --vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS --vxlan-id 5000
  7. View the network statistics for a specific VDS Port ID. 
    esxcli network vswitch dvs vmware vxlan network port list --vds-name Cluster01-VXLAN-VDS --vxlan-id 5000 vdsport-is 968