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Is this an opensource version of NSX? No. Like many other companies, VMware incorporates various existing 3rd party Open Source components using licenses like the GNU GPL in their products. For example, on ESXi hosts a few of those are OpenSSL, busybox, grub bootloader, libxml and many more. The GPL requires that the source code is published if the code is modified or directly incorporated. VMware does that with all of their products in the form of bundles like this. However, that doesn't mean all source code of the whole product needs to be published. There is still a lot of core proprietary code that you won't find in these tarballs. I couldnt find any relevant information on how to install and configure NSX using this file. You can't. As explained above, the important core proprietary code is not part of these bundles.

The best option would be to remove the ESXi host from the prepared cluster which will uninstall any NSX components automatically. Then once the VMkernel interfaces are aligned, you can re-add the host to the cluster which will re-install the NSX components & create the VXLAN VTEP.

Hello and Welcome to NSX VMTN, In NSX we have 3 different VIB vib names are: esx-dvfilter-switch-security esx-vsip esx-vxlan VXLAN VIB verification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ we can verify vib exist by this command: esxcli software vib get --vibname esx-vxlan VMware_bootbank_esx-vxlan_5.5.0-0.0.1641394    Name: esx-vxlan    Version: 5.5.0-0.0.1641394    Type: bootbank    Vendor: VMware    Acceptance Level: VMwareCertified    Summary: Vxlan and host tool    Description: This package loads module and configures firewall for vxlan networking.    ReferenceURLs:    Creation Date: 2014-03-02    Depends: esx-base >= 5.5, esx-base << 5.6, nsx-api <= 1, vmkapi_2_2_0_0    Conflicts:    Replaces:    Provides: vxlan = 2.0.0.0-nsx, vdr = 1.0.0.0    Maintenance Mode Required: False    Hardware Platforms Required:    Live Install Allowed: True    Live Remove Allowed: False    Stateless Ready: True    Overlay: True    Tags:    Payloads: esx-vxla Remove VXLAN VIB esxcli software vib remove -n esx-vxlan Removal Result    Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be reboot                                                                                                                                                             ed for the changes to be effective.    Reboot Required: true    VIBs Installed:    VIBs Removed: VMware_bootbank_esx-vxlan_5.5.0-0.0.1641394    VIBs Skipped: you can remove all 3 VIB this way.