In order for the hardware VTEP gateway to be discovered by the VMware NSX, an OVSDB connection must be setup between each hardware VTEP gateway and the NSX controller, which we will cover in this recipe. In this example, we will setup the OVSDB server to enable the HSC service on a hardware VTEP gateway leaf-01a and connect it to the NSX controller running the OVSDB client with the IP address 192.168.110.16 on port 6640 for OVSDB, as shown in the following screenshot:
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