Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I will investigate the VLAN 4095 on ESX and the SDN/GRE avenue.
Thanks! FG On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Murali Reddy <murali.re...@citrix.com>wrote: > If you can run XenServer on ESXi, there there is 'virtual guest > tagging'[1] where VLAN 4095 lets guest instances to send and receive > tagged traffic on to physical network. Perhaps you can try creating a > network with 4095 VLAN tag from CS and spin up XS VM instances. > > You can do it on XenServer as well, but VIF needs to connect to a non-VLAN > network. I use NetScaler VPX on XenServer[2], where VPX sends and receives > tagged traffic from the XenServer. > > [1] > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=di > splayKC&externalId=1003806 > [2] > http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/netscaler-vpx-10/ns-vpx-overview-w > rapper-con.html > > On 16/11/13 11:31 AM, "Francois Gaudreault" <fgaudrea...@cloudops.com> > wrote: > > >Yes. We want to be able spin XS within CloudStack. We also need those XS > >to > >consume VLAN tags to do advanced networking (kind of CS inside CS). Lets > >say we do have devs with ambitious needs :) > > > >Francois > >On 2013-11-15 9:46 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> > >wrote: > > > >> You want to pass the vlan tags into a VM that is actually a XenServer? > >> > >> On 11/14/13 3:02 PM, "Francois Gaudreault" <fgaudrea...@cloudops.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> >Is there a way to assign a trunked interface to a VM running in CS? > >>Like > >> >assign the entire guest interface. We have a use case where we need to > >>run > >> >XenServer hosts within a cloudstack managed infra. > >> > > >> >Thanks! > >> > > >> >Francois > >> > >> > > > > >
