[libvirt-users] VMware distributed port groups..Supported?

[Morgan McLean]

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So I thought this was very obvious, but this is a 100% VMware cluster.
Libvirt can communicate with esx.

I get the feeling nobody does this.

Morgan

On Sunday, June 30, 2013, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> On 06/29/2013 03:22 AM, Morgan McLean wrote:
> > Does anybody have the great tip that is going to set me free? I hope?
>
> Hi,
>
> Distributed Port Groups come from the "vNetwork Distributed Switch"
> (vDS); a feature of VMware vCenter.  You just can't throw a non-ESXi
> hypervisor into your vCenter datacenter and expect it to work with their
> proprietary technology.  The same way you just can't throw an ESXi into
> oVirt (the open-source equivalent to vCenter) and expect it to have
> access to all the defined networks at the datacenter level
> (automatically).  AFAIK, we're not there yet.
>
> I know VMware recently came out with their "vCenter Multi-Hypervisor
> Manager" but it only supports Hyper-V and I don't think it integrates
> with their vDS.
>
> > Everything we use is on the vSwitches, as we run 60-80 VLAN's to each
> > cluster member.
>
> You could use Linux as the hypervisor but you'll have to manually
> configure those VLANs and assign them to your VMs to be able to connect
> to the VMs running on your vCenter (assuming they'll be sharing the same
> layer-2 switch).
>
> Since obviously you're using vCenter, isn't it more easier to add
> another ESXi ?
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
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Thanks,
Morgan
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