Thursday, December 8, 2011

PVLAN

The extension of VLAN standard, able to isolate traffic between VMs within same VLAN

DMZ is a use case PVLAN


PVLAN contains primary VLAN (Promiscuous) and secondary VLAN (identified by unique VLAN ID), while secondary VLAN (Isolated/Community)exist only within primary VLAN

Both physical switch (PVLAN-aware, due to MAC address discovery) and vDS could identify the VLAN ID for PVLAN

Physical switch also use tagging for the traffic; physical switch must trunk to ESX(i) hosts and not in secondary VLAN

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