Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 3

• Part 1 – Host Networking – Bonds
• Part 2 – Host Networking – Load Balancing
• Part 3 – AHV VLANs  (You are here!)
• Part 4 – User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking

For part 3 in our series I want to tackle VLANs in AHV. I don’t actually have a light board video for this one 🙁

What I do have are some diagrams for you to look at!

Here’s the default VLAN configuration that we’d recommend:

Here is a non-default configuration where a VLAN tag is added to the AHV host and the Controller Virtual Machine:

Learn more about VLANs in the Acropolis Hypervisor here on the official Nutanix NEXT Community Blog. Find complete details in the AHV Best Practice Guide.