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

5. When finished setting up a network, click Save.
The network is now ready to use with infrastructure orchestration.
Trunk and VLAN networks
Cloud deployment environments and multi-tenancy environments require segmented networks for
customer data separation. VLAN tags in network packets can be used for network segmentation
for data separation. This enables a single wire to carry network packets from separate network
broadcast domains that are efficiently managed by switching technology in the data center
infrastructure and in virtualization hypervisors such as ESX and Hyper-V.
In Matrix infrastructure orchestration:
• A trunk is a physical or virtual subnet that carries traffic with multiple tags. It requires a trunk
or tunnel connection at the switch port level, and a VLAN-aware network connection within
the server OS. A trunk network cannot be a VLAN network.
A trunk in infrastructure orchestration designer is a VLAN trunk representing a network
connection that carries multiple VLANs to a blade. How that is satisfied during a provisioning
request depends on the available resources to the candidate blades. For example, a trunk in
the designer may be configured on the target blade using either Virtual Connect networks
mapped to a single port on the blade or a Virtual Connect tunneled trunk network that was
defined in IO as carrying the desired networks.
Port aggregations/teaming cannot be explicitly defined in infrastructure orchestration designer.
Port aggregation/teaming is primarily a operating system configuration action (for example,
adding the NICs to a vSwitch). This is best accomplished through naming conventions and
customized Operations Orchestration workflow scripts to configure the OS networking.
• A VLAN is carried by one or more Virtual Connect tunnel networks or other trunk networks in
the environment. A VLAN cannot be a trunk network.
Configuring infrastructure orchestration resources in Systems Insight Manager 71