Management of endpoint address discovery in a software defined networking environment

A computing apparatus comprising:

• a storage system;
• a processing system operatively coupled to the storage system;
• and
• program instructions stored on the storage system to manage Internet Protocol (IP) address discovery in a software defined network (SDN) environment that, when executed by the processing system, direct the computing apparatus to:
• in a control plane, receive an IP address discovery configuration from a management plane;
• in the control plane, obtain a discovered list from a hypervisor of one or more IP addresses associated with one or more logical ports, wherein the one or more IP addresses correspond to one or more overlay network addresses associated with one or more virtual nodes coupled to the one or more logical ports;
• and
• in the control plane, update one or more realized lists for the one or more logical ports based on the discovered list and the IP address discovery configuration.