11 Set Up Virtual LANs

This chapter describes how to set up a VLAN on the Ethernet connector of a Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switch, and it describes how to assign a virtual NIC (VNIC) on a compute node to use that VLAN.

The tasks described in this chapter are optional.

It contains the following topics:

• Introduction to VLAN

• Example Scenario

• Tag the Ethernet Connectors With a VLAN Identifier

• Oracle Linux: Creating VNICs and Associating Them with VLANs

• Oracle Solaris: Creating VNICs and Associating Them with VLANs