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Re: [Xen-users] can VDE be used in Xen
Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
Ah, i forgot to mention an important constraint. Assuming that this
garden of vlans is going to be created in a network of xen hosts, with
one switch and (I dont have administrative access /any access at all to
the switch), I would be looking for a switch emulator to do the vlan
trunking
something on the lines of VDE, Serval , etc .
Have you or anybody for that matter had any experience with such
software switch emulators (Serval sounds interesting)
Simon Capstick wrote:
RumbelStelskin wrote:
yes, but this arrangement would create a vlan inside a single host (or
am i wrong?)..
what if i want to vlanify domUs in different hosts (hosts in different
subnets too)?
and with the added complexity of several such disparate vlans in this
network of xen hosts
Simon Capstick wrote:
RumbelStelskin wrote:
virtual distributed ethernet
Todd Deshane wrote:
what is VDE?
On Jan 29, 2008 2:14 AM, RumbelStelskin <shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
i have spent the last 5 hours searching for some
post/blog/experience on
VDE Xen combo. but to no avail.
VDE seems to be popular with KVM and other non virtualized
environments
. Are there ways to use it with Xen, i mean, transparently
connect a
set of DomUs in different physical hosts in different
networks , to
form one virtual network?
If this cannot be done at Dom0 side, it always can be done at
the DomU
side, where the domu plugs into a vde switch. But are there any
ballpark
stats on the performance drops?
to put things in a nut shell, I am looking for some decent
solution
(with acceptable levels of performance loss) to form a virtual
network
of DomUs that are spread across physical machines, across
physical
networks (some behind nats/firewalls).
is vlan the way to go?how?
thanks
r
This is how I would go about it:
Use vconfig on Dom0 to create a virtual interface on a VLAN, e.g.
eth0.1. Then you would edit the Xen config to use that interface
rather than the default eth0, in bridge mode of course (the
default?). Do the same on all your Dom0s and you have a shared DomU
network. For security you should restrict which ports on your
switch can use your VLAN ID, i.e. the ones with Xen servers! You
will then have to decide how to connect the VLAN to the outside
world, via a DomU with acting as a router or via a physical router
on your network.
Simon
The Xen created network bridge attached to the VLAN interface on Dom0
(not eth0) sends the appropriate traffic out to your physical network
switch. It is my understanding that the VLAN interface is simply
tagging packets and then sending them on over the specified physical
interface (and receiving the correctly VLAN tagged packets too).
Assuming you have set-up your switch correctly and other Dom0s with
the same config then they should be able to communicate.
Of course reality may bite, and you may find problems with VLANs and
Xen as discussed in posts in the list archive. But I assume the
problems are now gone, or there are workarounds.
Simon
The only (secure) way I can think of is to set-up a Linux VPN between
all the Dom0s in a mesh arrangement. Very CPU intensive I would imagine.
It would be much better to get hold of a physical switch you can manage.
Alternatively cable directly between Dom0s using cross-over cables, lots
of NICs and some routing on the Dom0s (not a nice solution).
Simon
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