HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1 Software: User Guide

Screen details
Table 4-5 Data displayed by the Vswitch Properties General tab
DescriptionData
Name of the virtual switchVswitch Name
The status of the virtual switch:
• Up (operational)
• Down (inoperational)
• Link down (the physical network interface used by the vswitch is not running)
Status
The type of virtual switch:
• shared vswitch: can be used by more than one virtual machine that includes a virtual network
device (virtual NIC) backed by the switch
• dedicated vswitch: can be used by only one started virtual machine at a time
Type
The LAN interface on the host through which the network traffic flowsBacking LAN
Indicates whether the backing LAN interface supports Accelerated Virtual Input/Output.
AVIO is supported on HP Integrity VM Version 3.5 or later. For each virtual machine containing
an AVIO device, the VM Host OS and the guest OS must support AVIO. For more information
about AVIO requirements, see “Creating virtual switches” (page 105) in this manual. In addition,
see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.
Supports AVIO
The set of active virtual machines that are configured to use this vswitch, are currently started,
and therefore, are using the vswitch
Actively used by
The set of inactive virtual machines with at least one virtual network interface card in the virtual
machine configured to use the vswitch as a backing device
Configured, but
not actively used
by
If the VM Host is running HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 2.0 or greater, a table of the
VLAN (virtual LAN) port assignments, if any. (A VLAN defines the logical connectivity defined
by a LAN.) This table lists the following information:
Vswitch Port
Assignments
DescriptionData
Port IDs for the vswitchPort
If a VLAN ID has been specified for this port, it
is displayed here; otherwise, this column
displays (none)
VLAN ID
List of virtual machines that are assigned to this
vswitch port
Assigned to
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