For an idea of how vSwitches (etherstubs) and VNICs interact in Smartos, here's a good diagram for a single physical port:
http://uadmin.nl/init/solaris-11-zones-and-etherstubs/ And this one with NAT/proxy: http://www.scalingbits.com/book/export/html/479 And I believe this was discussed earlier, you can use a bridge in Crossbow for bridging two physical ports. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gavin Ang <[email protected]> wrote: > My company wants to move to virtualized environment from its current > physical environment - total about 50 vms on 12 hosts. Need to have HA > capability to ensure that the system keeps chugging along even if the HW > fails. We are going to repurpose some of the compute HW with SmartOS Hosts > and add some new networking hardware for this. It seems like VLAN > architecture on the network with tagged frames and trunking might do the > trick, but the literature on this is quite confusing on actually how to > implement this: > > Network requirements: > > 1. Need to have multiple network zones (DMZ, App, Db, Storage, Management > etc) > > 2. Each physical host only has 2 physical NIC's > > 3. Existing FW/Router is a HA set operating in active/passive mode with > auto failover (Sonicwall 3600) > > 4. VM's from any host should be able to be assigned into any network zone, > and have connectivity to another VM in another zone (eg Internet -> Web VM > (DMZ) -> DB VM (DB zone) > > 5. Cost effective, easy to maintain network > > We will purchase 2 new switches for this, but question is which one, and > what features do I need to achieve all the above. Seems like a layer 2 > switch is sufficient, and I would like to avoid complications like adding > Open vSwitch (do I have to have this?) > > We intend to bond the 2 physical NICs at the host level and connect the > NIC's separately to each switch, then configure the VLAN to span the 2 > switches for HA. Is the SmartOS link aggregation feature used for this? > Could not find any other documentation. How would the vswitching (vmware > equivalent) need to be configured? > > Thanks, > > > > > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27088356-7e8b0922> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
