On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Noel King <noelk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for you assistance Sateesh certainly got my understanding further.
> I had an offline chat with Paul Angus about this and he advised to create a
> brand new zone which picked up the correct switch.
> 
> On this switch I learned that I cannot use the portgroup we created, but
> just let cloudstack use the ones it creates.
> 
> I hope this response may help others in the future.
> 
> Kind regards
> Noel

So you have things working now ?

Could be a nice quick blog post 

> 
> 
> On 20 June 2013 19:16, Noel King <noelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sateesh,
>> 
>> Did not realise unitl I started looking at the code that you contributed
>> greatly to it, great to get reply from you.    I have done some
>> investigation around the VmwareManagerImpl.java which uses this
>> configuration  and see that change was made for 4.2 branch, sadly.
>> 
>> Do you have any feedback on version 4.1
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Noel
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 June 2013 18:27, Noel King <noelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Sateesh,
>>> 
>>> Sorry replied too quick from phone when I away from my desk, Are those
>>> global config changes in 4.1 as well as I dont see them but will have a
>>> quick search in docs for them.
>>> 
>>> "private.network.vswitch.name
>>> "public.network.vswitch.name"
>>> "guest.network.vswitch.name"
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Noel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 20 June 2013 18:19, Noel King <noelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Apologies if I did not state that, but had restarted the management
>>>> server and error message sent was after the restart.  So looks like its not
>>>> picking up the change.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Noel
>>>> On Jun 20, 2013 6:16 p.m., "Sateesh Chodapuneedi" <
>>>> sateesh.chodapune...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Noel King [mailto:noelk...@gmail.com]
>>>>>> Sent: 20 June 2013 22:37
>>>>>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>>>>>> Subject: Re: VMWare changing the default vSwitch Name
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Sateesh
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for your reply, I have made those changes and restarted but
>>>>> with no joy and am still seeing vSwitch0 being used in the log and my
>>>>>> portgroup is returning "Message: Uable to find management port group
>>>>> MyPortGroup"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> INFO  [vmware.resource.VmwareResource] (ClusteredAgentManager Timer:)
>>>>> VmwareResource network configuration info. private
>>>>>> vSwitch: vSwitch0, public vSwitch: vSwitch0, guest network: vSwitch0
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any further insight would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you set following global configuration parameters based on the
>>>>> traffic type?
>>>>> "private.network.vswitch.name
>>>>> "public.network.vswitch.name"
>>>>> "guest.network.vswitch.name"
>>>>> 
>>>>> Need to restart management server once these parameters are modified.
>>>>> Hope that helps!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Sateesh
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Noel
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 20 June 2013 17:42, Sateesh Chodapuneedi <
>>>>> sateesh.chodapune...@citrix.com
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Noel King [mailto:noelk...@gmail.com]
>>>>>>>> Sent: 20 June 2013 20:16
>>>>>>>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>>>>>>>> Subject: VMWare changing the default vSwitch Name
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I am currently working on a Cloudstack VMWare integration project
>>>>>>>> and we
>>>>>>> have setup up a dedicated vSwitch and PortGroup for
>>>>>>>> cloudstack.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On reading the VMware vSphere Installation and Configuration (
>>>>>>> http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-
>>>>>>>> US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html/Installation_Guide/
>>>>> vmware-install.ht
>>>>>>>> ml
>>>>>>>> ) I see the following advise:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 8.3.5.1. Configure Virtual Switch
>>>>>>>> A default virtual switch vSwitch0 is created. CloudStack requires
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>> ESXi hosts in the cloud to use the same set of virtual switch names.
>>>>>>> If
>>>>>>>> you change the default virtual switch name, you will need to
>>>>>>>> configure
>>>>>>> one or more CloudStack configuration variables as well.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Would you mind explaining *"you will need to configure one or more
>>>>>>> CloudStack configuration variables as well*." What settings these
>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> and where they can be changed.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Edit the physical network traffic label to specify the vswitch name
>>>>> to
>>>>>>> be used for particular traffic.
>>>>>>> Ex: If you would like to use "vSwitch2" for guest traffic then edit
>>>>>>> the guest network traffic label as "vSwitch2".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Noel
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Noel
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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