Short for tunnel endpoint: the interface on an NSX Edge node or ESX host where Geneve overlay tunnels begin and end. Addresses can be static, from DHCP or from an IP pool.
Also called tunnel endpoint.
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Terms in this definition
- NSX Edge node
Virtual or bare-metal appliance for NSX functions that hypervisors cannot run in a distributed way, for example north-south routing, NAT, Tier-0 gateways and load balancing. Several form an Edge cluster.
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- DHCP
Azure delivers each NIC's private IP to the guest operating system using this protocol, so keep the OS set to obtain addresses automatically and configure any static IP on the Azure NIC.
Related terms
- transport node profile
NSX template that sets out VDS, transport zones, uplink profile and TEP addressing for turning every host of a vCenter cluster into a host transport node.
- Use Azure Private IP Address
Setting this on a VPN connection makes the gateway's private IP the tunnel endpoint, which is how IPsec runs over ExpressRoute private peering. Compatibility between route-based gateways and policy-based devices is a separate matter it doesn't solve.
- VLAN
Layer 2 broadcast domain tagged using 802.1Q. In VCF they carry TEP, vSAN, vMotion and management traffic, and NSX can back segments with them.