Re: [Xen-users] [XCP] XCP network and VLAN by Open vSwitch

[Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Wei-Chih Chen (陳偉志)
<wcchen.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am new with XCP.
> I've setup several hosts with XCP 1.0 and manage it through XenCenter and
> command console.
> Each host has two NICs, one (xenbr0) connected to a physical switch for
> Internet (said sw1), the other (xenbr3) connected to a physical switch for
> internal network (said sw2).
>
> I am trying to setup VMs and VLANs on xenbr3.
> I created a virtual bridge by "ovs-vsctl add-br brvlan2 xenbr3 2"
> Then add a port (portvlan2) to brvlan2:
>      ovs-vsctl add-port brvlan2 portvlan2 tag=2
>      ifconfig vlan2 192.168.33.200
> Now the problem is that I do know how to attach portvlan2 to VM.
> Could someone give me simple steps to setup VLANs using Open vSwitch and
> attach them to VMs?
>
> Moreover, the newly created bridges are not shown in XenCenter.
> If I use xe network-create, the newly created network can be shown in
> XenCenter.
> Is this because XenCenter uses xe command and does NOT support to show Open
> vSwitch?
> The question I wonder most is what is the difference to configure XCP
> network using xe and ovs- commands?
>

You are going to want to use the xe commands related to networking.

See 
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/5.6.0fp1/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#networking-concepts

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Todd


> Thanks a lot. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Wayne
>
>
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