Thanks for your help. I understand it know.
Jose Carlos
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From: Francois Gaudreault
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] PF Zen ESX image doubt
Hi Jose,
I am not sure about the vSwitch idea, how to use it on vmware ESX I mean the
concept only. I have a cisco catalyst 2950 here.
The vSwitch is by default enabled in ESX, and the only thing this device does
is the switch packet WITHIN ESX virtual machines if needed.
If I run the ESX image and utilize the vSwitch with trunk port profile
enabled and the 5 vEthernets that PF needs am I going to need my physical
switch? or the vSwitch can handle all the job to run PF ZEN?
First, on the ZEN ESX vm, you only need to have 1 vEthernet, a TRUNK one. You
need to ensure that all the VLANs are sent tagged on the ESX host physical
port. We assume that your management VLAN is sent untagged. You will still
need your physical switches, nothing is changed there....
I suggest that you have a quick look on the Packetfence ZEN documentation :
Import to ESX
Make sure that there is only one virtual network card created, and also make
sure that your vEthernet is connected to a virtual switch (vSwitch). You will
need to create a "TRUNK" profile to allow all VLAN tags (usually VLAN 4095),
and assign the profile to the PacketFence ZEN VM vEthernet.
I hope it enlights your toughts :)
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