HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Provisioning with Virtual Resources

Virtual Connect tunneled trunk configuration
HP Virtual Connect provides two types of network configurations to present a VLAN trunk to a VC
server blade. The HP Virtual Connect Ethernet Cookbook illustrates these two configurations in
scenarios 1:6 (mapped trunk) and 2:4 (tunneled trunk).
A Virtual Connect tunneled trunk configuration passes tagged traffic through to the target interface
unrestricted. The definitions of the VLANs can only be found on the LAN-side switch and configured
in the host-side network stack. VC does not maintain any information on the VLANs.
Configuration of the host requires knowledge of the VLANs to use. The definition of the VLANs
must be supplied by the administrator in the infrastructure orchestration console or designer, and
potentially from external sources, such as LAN management tools.
Following is an example of a Virtual Connect tunnel trunk configuration.
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