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NSX-Manager

Login to NSX-V manager as admin

Execute these commands on NSX-V manger to verify the controller and NSX-V status on cluster

NSX-V Controller

Login to NSX-V controllers as admin

Execute this command on NSX-V controller to verify the controller and NSX-V status on cluster

Execute this command on NSX-V controller to verify which NSX-V manager is linked to controller

ESX Hosts

Verification of NSX-VIB’s on esx hosts

Verfifcation of VXLAN on esx hosts

Checking DLR routes from the data plane (ESXi)

Find out all logical router instances

List the routing table on the esx host

OSPF has learned three routes 192.168.10.0/24 , 192.168.11.0/24 ,192.168.12.0/24

Verifying OSPF configuration from DLR router

Verifying OSPF configuration from Edge Router

#Shows network info

show network interface


#Check mac-adress-table inside bridge  
  >show logical-router controller controller-3 dlr edge-13 bridge 1 mac-address-table
  >show logical-router controller  master dlr edge-2378 bridge all mac-address-table

#Check mac inside vxlan
  >show logical-switch controller master vni 20234 mac

Check the MAC tables
# show logical-switch controller master vni 30006 mac
Check the ARP tables
# show logical-switch controller master vni 30006 arp

# show control-cluster logical-routers instance all
  LR-Id LR-Name Universal Service-Controller Egress-Locale
  0x1388 default+edge-1 false 192.168.110.201 local

# show control-cluster logical-routers interface-summary 0x1388
  Interface Type Id IP[]
  13880000000b vxlan 0x1389 172.16.10.1/24
  13880000000a vxlan 0x1388 172.16.20.1/24
  138800000002 vxlan 0x138a 192.168.10.2/29

# show control-cluster logical-routers routes 0x1388
  Destination Next-Hop[] Preference Locale-Id Source
  192.168.100.0/24 192.168.10.1 110 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 CONTROL_VM
  0.0.0.0/0 192.168.10.1 0 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 CONTROL_VM

#from hypervisor
net-vdr -b --stats edge-xxxx

#Show all edges deployed in nsx manager
show logical-router list all

This command shows all hosts receiving routing info for logical router from controller controllers. 

### Show all esx hosts connected to dlr</h4>

show logical-router list dlr host<br>eg: show logical-router list dlr edge-1 host


This list routing table info that is communicated to the host via the logical router and this should be consistent across all hosts.

show logical-router host dlr edge-1 host
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