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

Planning an Elastic Virtual Switch Configuration

Planning an elastic virtual switch configuration includes the following actions:

1. Installing the mandatory packages on the EVS controller, EVS manager, and EVS nodes. You must install these packages for each of these components separately. For more information, see Mandatory Packages for Using EVS.

2. Setting up the SSH authentication with the preshared public key for evsuser between the following components in the EVS setup:

   • EVS manager and the EVS controller

   • Each EVS node and the EVS controller

   • EVS controller and each EVS node

   For more information, see Setting Up SSH Authentication.

3. Specify the EVS controller by setting the controller property. You must specify the host name or IP address of the EVS controller on the EVS nodes, EVS manager, and EVS controller. For more information, see Configuring an EVS Controller.

4. Configuring the EVS controller, which involves:

   1. Setting the properties for the EVS controller.

   2. Verifying the properties that are set for the EVS controller.

   For more information, see How to Configure an EVS Controller.

5. Configuring the elastic virtual switch by using the EVS manager, which involves:

   1. Creating the elastic virtual switch.

   2. Adding the IPnet to the elastic virtual switch.

   3. Adding the VPort to the elastic virtual switch.

   4. Verifying the configured elastic virtual switch.

   For more information, see How to Configure an Elastic Virtual Switch.

6. Creating VNICs on the EVS nodes and connecting the VNICs to the elastic virtual switch, which involves:

   1. Creating VNICs by using the dladm command or creating VNIC anet resources by using the zonecfg command and connecting them to the elastic virtual switch.

   2. Verifying the VNICs that are connected to the elastic virtual switch.

   For more information, see Creating a VNIC for an Elastic Virtual Switch.