Virtual Networking 101
Guy Brunsdon is starting a blog just on virtual infrastructure networking. He's kicking off his writing with a little intro over on the VI Team Blog. Link: Networking for VI admins | VI Team Blog.
The world of networking is often unfamiliar territory for server and VMware Infrastructure (VI) admins. In most enterprises, networking is the responsibility of a dedicated team of networking experts who may be unfamiliar with the world of server virtualization. So how does a VI admin approach networking? How does he or she say to the networking folks, “I want to roll out VI across these hosts and I need them all connected to the production network.”
First up, involve the network team early and provide them with some information on how VI networking works. A good place to start is the VMware Virtual Networking Concepts paper at http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/997 This paper covers the essentials of VI networking: what is a vSwitch? How do I use VLANs? What are my options for NIC teaming, and so on? A network admin will find the concepts presented quite familiar. vSwitches (virtual switches) are very similar to L2 physical switches. Having the network folks read this paper will help put you all on the same page.
Posted by VMTN on June 17, 2008 in VMware Infrastructure 3
| Permalink |
Comments