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Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Network Virtualization and Network Resource Management
What's New in Network Virtualization and Network Resources
Overview of Network Virtualization
Network Virtualization Technologies That Are Supported by Oracle Solaris
Network Virtualization Components
Virtual Network Interface Card (VNIC)
Virtual Switch
Etherstub Virtual NIC
Elastic Virtual Switch
Types of VMs for Network Virtualization in Oracle Solaris
Oracle Solaris Zones
Oracle VM Server for SPARC
How a Virtual Network Works
Overview of Network Resource Management
Managing Network Resources Through Datalinks
Managing Network Resources Through Flows
Scenario: Combining Network Virtualization and Network Resource Management
Using Rights Profiles to Perform Network Configuration
Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Virtual Networks
Configuring the Components of a Virtual Network
How to Configure VNICs and Etherstubs
How to Configure VNICs as VLANs
How to Configure VNICs as PVLANs
Configuring IPoIB VNICs
How to Configure IPoIB VNICs
Identifying the Link Status of an IPoIB VNIC
Managing IPoIB VNICs
Building Virtual Networks
How to Configure a Zone for the Virtual Network
How to Reconfigure a Zone to Use a VNIC
Creating VNICs Directly for Zones
Use Case: Configuring a Private Virtual Network
How to Configure the Private Virtual Network
How to Enable IP Forwarding and NAT
Managing VNICs
Displaying VNICs
Displaying VNICs With Multiple MAC Addresses
Displaying the Physical and Virtual Link State of Datalinks
Modifying the VLAN IDs of VNICs
Modifying PVLAN VNICs
Modifying VNIC MAC Addresses
Migrating VNICs
Deleting VNICs
How to Delete a VNIC
How to Delete a VNIC Attached to a Zone
Using Single Root I/O Virtualization With VNICs
Enabling the SR-IOV Mode of Datalinks
Creating VF VNICs
Migrating VF VNICs
Configuring Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones With SR-IOV VFs
Displaying VF Information
Setting Hardware SLA Properties for VF VNICs
Bandwidth Share for VNICs
Considerations for the bw-share Property
Interaction of the bw-share Property With DCB Bandwidth Shares
Bandwidth Share for VNIC anet Resources
Use Case: Offloading Hardware SLAs to a NIC
How to Offload Hardware SLAs to a NIC (Use Case)
Use Case: Offloading Hardware SLAs to DLMP Aggregated Datalink for High Availability
How to Offload Hardware SLAs to DLMP Aggregated Datalink for High Availability (Use Case)
Creating and Viewing Paravirtualized IPoIB Datalinks in Kernel Zones
About Paravirtualized IPoIB Datalinks in Oracle Solaris
Creating VNICs Over Paravirtualized IPoIB Datalink
Configuring a Virtual Network Interface
Chapter 3 Configuring Virtual Extensible Local Area Networks
About VXLANs
VXLAN Naming Convention
VXLAN Topology
Using VXLAN With Zones
How to Plan for a VXLAN Configuration
Configuring a VXLAN
How to Configure a VXLAN
Displaying VXLAN Information
Deleting a VXLAN
Assigning a VXLAN to a Zone
How to Assign a VXLAN to a Zone
Use Case: Configuring a VXLAN Over a Link Aggregation
Chapter 4 Using Edge Virtual Bridging
EVB Support in Server-Network Edge Virtualization
Reflective Relay
Automated VNIC Configuration in the Network
Network and Server Efficiency Improvements by Using EVB
How to Install EVB
Controlling Switching Between VMs Over the Same Physical Port
Local Network Traffic Exchange
Remote Network Traffic Exchange
Auto Network Traffic Exchange
Exchanging VNIC Information by Using VDP
Displaying VDP and ECP State and Statistics
Displaying the VDP State and Statistics
Displaying the Link Properties
Displaying ECP State and Statistics
Changing the Default EVB Configuration
How to Change the Default EVB Configuration
Chapter 5 About Elastic Virtual Switches
Overview of the EVS Feature
About Virtual Switches
The Oracle Solaris Elastic Virtual Switch
Elastic Virtual Switch Resources
IP Network
Virtual Port
About EVS Tenants
EVS Components
EVS Manager
EVS Controller
EVS Clients
EVS Nodes
Restrictions in Configuring EVS Components
Mandatory Packages for Using EVS
Security Requirements for Using EVS
Chapter 6 Administering Elastic Virtual Switches
Overview of Elastic Virtual Switch Configuration
Preparing to Set Up EVS
Installing the Required Packages
About SSH Authentication and the evsuser
How to Set Up SSH Authentication Between the EVS Controller and an EVS Node
How to Set Up SSH Authentication Between an EVS Node and the EVS Controller
How to Set Up SSH Authentication Between the EVS Manager and the EVS Controller
Testing the SSH Authentication
Configuring the EVS Controller
About Layer 2 Segment Types
About Setting RAD Per-EVS Node Connections
How to Configure an EVS Controller
Configuring Elastic Virtual Switches
How to Configure an Elastic Virtual Switch
Configuring EVS Nodes
How to Set Up the Connection Between an EVS Node and the Controller
Administering Elastic Virtual Switches, IPnets, and VPorts
Administering an Elastic Virtual Switch
Displaying Elastic Virtual Switch Information
Setting Properties for an Elastic Virtual Switch
Displaying Properties of an Elastic Virtual Switch
Administering an IPnet Configuration
Setting Properties for an IPnet
Displaying Properties of an IPnet
Removing an IPnet
Displaying IPnets
Administering VPort Configuration
Setting Properties for a VPort
Displaying Properties of a VPort
Displaying VPorts
Resetting a VPort
Removing a VPort
Deleting an Elastic Virtual Switch
How to Delete an Elastic Virtual Switch
Monitoring Elastic Virtual Switches
Use Case: Configuring an EVS Network Topology
Chapter 7 Managing Network Resources
Managing Network Resources by Using Datalink Properties
Managing NIC Rings
Ring-Related Properties
Configuring Clients and Allocating Rings
How to Configure Clients and Allocate Rings
Creating VNICs With Dedicated Ring Groups
How to Create VNICs to Have Their Own Ring Groups
VNICs With Ring Group in SR-IOV Mode
Zone's anet Resource With Ring Group
Hardware Offload Support for the ring-group Property
Support of Hardware Flows
Displaying Ring Use and Ring Assignments
Managing Pools and CPUs
How to Configure a CPU Pool for a Datalink
How to Allocate CPUs to a Datalink
Using the Large Receive Offload Feature in Oracle Solaris
Benefits of Using the LRO Feature
Enabling LRO for Datalinks
LRO Support for Link Aggregations
LRO Support for Zones
Managing Network Resources by Using Flows
Commands for Resource Allocation in Flows
Configuring Flows
How to Configure Flows
Setting Properties for Flows
Overlapping Flows
Configuring Flows With Dedicated Ring Groups
How to Create a Flow With a Dedicated Ring Group
Configuring Bandwidth Share for the Flows With Dedicated Ring Group
Configuring a Flow With a Group of Flow Filters
Viewing Flow Filter Information
Creating a Flow Without a Filter
Use Case: Managing Network Resources by Setting Datalink and Flow Properties
Chapter 8 Monitoring Network Traffic and Resource Usage
Overview of Monitoring Network Traffic Statistics of Datalinks and Flows
Commands for Monitoring Network Traffic Statistics
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Links
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Network Devices
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Datalinks
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Link Aggregations
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Bridges
Displaying Network Traffic Statistics of Flows
Configuring Network Accounting for Network Traffic
How to Set Up Network Accounting
Displaying Historical Statistics on Network Traffic
Displaying Historical Network Traffic Statistics on Datalinks
Displaying Historical Network Traffic Statistics on Flows
Index
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Index B
Index C
Index D
Index E
Index F
Index G
Index H
Index I
Index K
Index L
Index M
Index N
Index O
Index P
Index Q
Index R
Index S
Index T
Index U
Index V
Index Z
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Configuring the EVS Controller
This section discusses important controller properties that you need to set.
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