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

Overview of Elastic Virtual Switch Configuration

Configuring the elastic virtual switch (EVC) involves the following general steps:

1. Preparing to set up EVS.

   1. Installing the mandatory packages on the all the hosts containing the EVS controller, EVS manager, and EVS nodes.

   2. Setting up the SSH authentication with the preshared public key for evsuser among all the components in the EVS setup.

2. Configuring the EVS controller.

3. Creating and configuring EVS switches.

4. Configuring the EVS nodes.

To configure EVS, the main command to use is evsadm. Refer to the evsadm(8) man page for details about its subcommands and options. See also the dladm(8) and zonecfg(8) man pages.