Administering Elastic Virtual Switches

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Chapter 6

This chapter describes tasks for administering elastic virtual switches and their resources. It contains the following topics:

Overview of Elastic Virtual Switch Configuration
Preparing to Set Up EVS
Configuring the EVS Controller
Configuring Elastic Virtual Switches
Configuring EVS Nodes
Administering Elastic Virtual Switches, IPnets, and VPorts
Monitoring Elastic Virtual Switches
Use Case: Configuring an EVS Network Topology

Note - Becoming evsuser is the recommended approach to administer elastic virtual switches and issue commands described in this chapter. This user is described further in About SSH Authentication and the evsuser. You might need additional rights profiles to issue other privileged commands indirectly related to EVS configuration. See Using Rights Profiles to Perform Network Configuration.