HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide

The following sections describe the Port-based VLAN feature, Guest-based VLAN feature, and
VLAN-backed vswitch feature.
NOTE: All three features are supported on the AVIO network.
8.4.1 Port-based VLANs
Figure 13 (page 121) shows a basic VM VLAN that allows guests on different VSP systems to
communicate.
Figure 13 Integrity VM VLAN configuration example
Port 21
vLAN - A
Port 3
vLAN - B
Port 2
vLAN - B
Data Center Network
vSwitch
Physical Switch
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Port 1
vLAN - A
Port 512
Virtualization Services Platform (VSP)
A vNIC on a guest is associated with a port on the vswitch and all network communication to and
from the guest passes through this vswitch port. You can configure VLAN rules on the individual
ports of the vswitch, similar to most physical switches. Each VLAN is identified by a VLAN identifier
(VLAN ID). The VLAN ID is a number in the range 0 to 4094. A port on the vswitch can be assigned
a VLAN ID that identifies the VLAN to which the port (and, therefore, the guest vNIC using that
port) belongs.
8.4 Configuring VLANs 121