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NSX VIBS on ESXi Host
POSTED BY MOHAMMED RAFFIC ON JANUARY 28, 2015 IN VMWARE NSX, VMWARE NSX INSTALLATION,
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Job of vSphere Administrators

is not so limited to GUI. You
should be always available
with troubleshoot your issues
from command line or
CLI.This also applies, when
Zerto Virtual Replication you are dealing with VMware
NSX. We have already
Fully automated & installs discussed about Preparing
easily, Best of VMworld your vSphere CLuster and
Europe 2014 winner
Host by installing NSX VIBS
www.zerto.com from Network & Security
plugin from vSphere Web
Client. It always a situation that the installation of NSX VIB’s may fail due to
some reason and we as vSphere admin should have to troubleshoot and Hx the
installation issues. I have faced one of the issue when i prepare my cluster/ ESXi
host for NSX. Let’s take a detailed look at setp by step procedure to manually
install NSX VIBs on the ESXi host.

Download NSX VIBs from the below URL:

https://<NSx-Mgr-IP>/bin/vdn/vibs/5.5/vxlan.zip

If you extract the downloaded “vxlan.zip”. Below are contents of the vxlan.zip.
 It Contains the 3 VIB Hles

1. esx-vxlan
2. esx-vsip

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3. esx-dvHlter-switch-security

One VIB enables the layer 2 VXLAN functionality, another VIB enables the
distributed router, and the Hnal VIB enables the distributed Hrewall.

Extract the vxlan.zip Hle and Copy the folder into the Shared Datastore or on
the local folder of the ESXi host using WinScp. I have copied the folder into my
ESXi host in /tmp directory. Let’s install the NSX VIBs one by one in the ESXi
host.

Install the “esx-vxlan” vib on the ESxi host using the below command:

 esxcli software vib install –no-sig-check -v /tmp/vxlan/vib20/esx-

vxlan/VMware_bootbank_esx-vxlan_5.5.0-0.0.2107100.vib

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Install the “esx-vsip” vib on the ESXi host using the below command:

esxcli software vib install –no-sig-check -v /tmp/vxlan/vib20/esx-

vsip/VMware_bootbank_esx-vsip_5.5.0-0.0.2107100.vib

Install the “esx-dvHlter-switch-security” vib on the ESXi host using the below
command:

esxcli software vib install –no-sig-check -v /tmp/vxlan/vib20/esx-dvHlter-switch-

security/VMware_bootbank_esx-dvHlter-switch-security_5.5.0-0.0.2107100.vib

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That’s it. We are done with manually installing NSX VIBs on ESXi host. This
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operations don’t require reboot of the ESXi host. Even this can be done when
active workloads are running on the ESXi host. I hope this is informative for
you. Thanks for reading. Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth
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Other VMware NSX Related Posts:

VMware NSX Installation Part 1 – NSX Overview & Installation Prerequistes

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VMware NSX Installation Part 3 – Integrating NSX Manager with vCenter Server

VMware NSX Installation Part 4 – Deploying NSX Controller

VMware NSX Installation Part 5 – Checking NSX Controller Status

VMware NSX Installation Part 6 – Preparing Cluster and Hosts for NSX

VMware NSX Installation Part 7 – Verify NSX VIBs Installation from ESXi hosts

VMware NSX Installation Part 8 – ConHguring VXLAN on the ESXi Hosts

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