Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

Creating and Managing Virtual Networks

This chapter describes tasks for configuring the components of a virtual network, building virtual networks, and managing VNICs in a single system. This chapter also describes how to create a virtual function (VF) based VNIC on a network device that supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV). For an introduction to virtual networks, see Introduction to Network Virtualization and Network Resource Management.

This 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