Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

Creating and Managing Virtual Networks

This chapter describes tasks for building and managing a virtual network on a single system, including creating a virtual function (VF) based VNIC on a network device that supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV).

The chapter contains the following topics:

• Configuring the Components of a Virtual Network

• Building Virtual Networks

• Managing VNICs

• Using Single Root I/O Virtualization With VNICs

• Creating and Viewing Paravirtualized IPoIB Datalinks in Kernel Zones