brownbag - vcloud networking
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Tonight's BrownBrownBag featured Kendrick Coleman discussing both what vCloud Networking and Understanding how to design for vCloud Networking.TRANSCRIPT
vCloud Networking
Understanding the Design
www.kendrickcoleman.com
The Basic Concepts
• External Networks• Organization Networks• vApp Networks• Network Pools– Port-group– VLAN– vCD-NI
External Networks
• Identified by a vSphere Portgroup• Must be created outside of vCD
Organization Networks
• Organizations describe a tenant• Networks that belong to an Organization• 3 Types of Org Network Connections• Internal and External• Created by the cloud admin
vApp Networks
• Networks available to a single vApp• Ability to Fence• vApp Networks connect to Organization’s
Internals or External Networks
Network Pools
• Giving the users control of L2• Creating the multi-tenant infrastructure• Declaring what L2 networks are available for
consumption• 3 Different kinds of Network pools
Port-Group Backed
• Pre-provisioned port-groups• Non-automated• vSphere Standard Switches• Currently Nexus 1000v, until 1.5 GA release
VLAN Backed
• Automated provisioning• Specify a range of VLANs• Network re-use
vCD-NI Backed
• vCloud Director Network Isolation• Mac-in-mac encapsulation• Breaking the 4094 VLAN barrier
More Resources
• vCloud Director Networking for Dummies– http://it20.info/2010/09/vcloud-director-networki
ng-for-dummies/• Mike D’s 2010 & 2011 VMworld Presentations– vCloud Networking Finally Explained
The Physical Design
• 1Gb vs 10Gb• X NICs vs Y NICs• Service Offering• The Pod Approach
External Design
• How many external networks are needed?
Enterprise
Service Provider
Service Provider
Enterprise or Service Provider
External Network Creation
• Create portgroup before vCD external creation• Use Ephemeral binding• Assign a VLAN• Layer 2 or Layer 3• IP Address Range with Gateway• DNS• Load Balancing & Failover
External Network Creation
External Network Creation
External Network Creation
External Network Creation
External Network Creation
External Network Creation
Network Pool Design
• Which type of network pool?• Port-group vs VLAN vs vCD-NI
vCD-NI
• VMware’s proprietary protocol• How many?• VLAN• L2 or L3?
vCD-NI and MTU
• MTU > 1600– Network Equipment– vNetwork Distributed Switch– vCloud
vCD-NI and MTU
• MTU > 1600– vCloud
vCD-NI Allocations
• Quotas per organization
Different Organization Networks
• Multiple Org vDCs can be in one Organization• Multiple Org vDCs can share Org Networks in
one Organization
Internal & External Routed
Internal & External Routed
Internal and External Direct
Internal and External Direct
Scalability
Scalability
Scalability