Operating Environment Software Instruction Manual

• When vDS networks are discovered into the IO inventory, they can be selected and used
when provisioning a service with one or more virtual servers.
All additional configuration of vDS occurs outside of IO using vCenter, including configuring virtual
machine rate limiting, security, and monitoring of the port runtime states.
NOTE: Do not rename a network that is in use by IO services. If a network is renamed using a
tool outside of IO, services shown by IO will appear to be using the old network. The old network
will remain in the network inventory, but will no longer have a physical or virtual source and cannot
be used to provision new services.
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 detailed information on Integrity VM, see HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Administrator
Guide and HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Release Notes.
Setting up a Hyper-V virtual machine network
To add a network for use by the virtual machines provisioned through infrastructure orchestration,
perform the following steps for each Hyper-V VM Host.
See “Configuring trunk and VLAN networks to enable support for Hyper-V VLAN tagging” (page
66) for information about the new method to support VLAN tagging in this release.
1. Connect to the Hyper-V host using Remote Desktop.
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