HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 and 7.3 Update 1 Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide

An administrator can configure a network with IPv4, IPv6, or dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) and also
define static ranges for IPv6 addresses. During the process of IPv6 network configuration, you must
define the prefix and the prefix length for IPv6. Optionally, an administrator can also configure
the gateway and DNS using IPv6. For more information, see the IPv6 in Insight Management white
paper, available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs.
NOTE: HP-UX and cloud-provisioned servers do not support IPv6 addresses. Physical servers do
not update DHCP addresses and do not customize IPv6 static/auto address settings. Hyper-V
servers display all alternate IPv6 discovery addresses in the first NIC of each server.
Network information is also available with CLI. For more information about using CLI, see the HP
CloudSystem Matrix/Matrix Operating Environment Integration Interfaces API and CLI Operations
Reference Guide available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
Setting up an ESX virtual machine network
To add a network for use by the virtual machines provisioned through infrastructure orchestration:
1. Open VMware Infrastructure Client, enter the IP and credentials of the vCenter Server, and
then click Login.
2. For each ESX/ESXi virtual machine host in the ESX cluster, do the following:
a. In the left navigation pane, select the virtual machine host.
b. Select the Configuration tab.
c. Click Networking.
d. Click Add Networking.
e. For connection type, select Virtual Machine, then click Next.
f. Depending on the network configuration of the virtual machine host, either select an
existing virtual switch or select Create a virtual switch, and then click Next.
g. In Port group properties, enter a name for the network in Network Label, and depending
on the network configuration of the virtual machine host, enter a VLAN ID.
h. Click Next.
3. Click Finish.
Repeat the process for each network.
Setting up an Integrity virtual machine network
To create an Integrity VM vSwitch, use the hpvmnet command on the Integrity VM Host.
NOTE: Matrix infrastructure orchestration uses only Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) network
devices for Integrity VM.
An Integrity VM cannot be configured with a connection to a local virtual network through
infrastructure orchestration. Only vSwitches connected to a physical NIC are recognized by
infrastructure orchestration.
Matrix infrastructure orchestration identifies Integrity VM virtual networks using vSwitch names,
which are limited to eight characters. Network names are correlated across hypervisor and VC
technologies to allow an infrastructure service to be provisioned with logical servers of different
types configured on the same network. Employing this capability requires the eight-character limit
to be extended to the other hypervisor and VC configurations in the managed environment.
For more information about Integrity VM, see HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Administrator Guide
and HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Release Notes on the following website:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs
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