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Table 2: Traffic Description
Traffic Type
Use
Compute Node
Hypervisor (Mgmt)
Supports virtualization management traffic and communication between the
host servers in the cluster.
Compute Live
Migration
Supports migration of VMs between the host servers in the cluster.
Tenant VM
Supports communication between the VMs hosted on the cluster and external
systems.
Compute Cluster
Private
Supports internal cluster network communication between the servers in the
cluster.
Out-of-Band
Management
Supports configuration and monitoring of the servers through the iDRAC
management interface, storage arrays, and network switches.
iSCSI Data
Supports iSCSI traffic between the servers and storage array(s). In addition,
traffic between the arrays is supported.
Management Node
Hypervisor
Supports virtualization management traffic and communication between the
management servers in the cluster.
Management Cluster
Private
Supports private cluster traffic for the management clusters.
Management Live
Migration
Supports migration of VMs between the management servers in the cluster.
Management VM
Supports the virtual machine traffic for the management virtual machines.
Table 3: Sample VLAN and subnet configuration
Traffic Type
Sample VLAN
Sample Subnet
Out-of-Band Management
24
10.110.4.0/24
Compute Node Management
20
10.110.0.0/24
Compute Live Migration
21
10.110.1.0/24
Compute Cluster Private
22
10.110.2.0/24
Management VM Network
23
10.110.3.0/24
iSCSI
25
10.110.5.0/24
Management Hypervisor
26
10.110.6.0/24
Management Cluster LM
27
10.110.7.0/24
Management Cluster Private
28
10.110.8.0/24
SQL Clustering
30
10.110.10.0/24
VM Network
32
10.110.12.0/22