MAC learning suffices for simple use cases. I don't know what you want to do with the information once you have it. It's hard to say what's needed without knowing that.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:54:50PM -0800, David Chuck wrote: > Can the physical switch has the VM info corresponding to each physical port? > For example, Server 1 serves VM 1 and VM2. It connects to port 1 in the > physical switch. Server 2 serves VM 3 and 4 and connects to port 2 in the > physical switch. How does the physical switch know VM1 and 2 are behind > port 1 and VM2 and 3 are behind port 2? > > Thanks > > Best Regards, > David Chuck > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:25:56PM -0800, David Chuck wrote: > > > I have some question regarding getting vSwitch info. I have two servers. > > > Each of them runs the open vSwitch and serves two VMs. These servers > > are > > > physically connected to a physical port of a physical switch, > > > respectively. Is there any possible way that the physical switch can > > link > > > the physical port info to the VM info grabbed from the vSwitch database? > > > > What does it mean to link physical port info to VM info? > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
