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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Wei-Chih Chen <wcchen.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Citrix provides vSwitch Controller to manage network across hosts. > However, it seems requiring XenServer Advanced edition, and downloading > vSwitch Controller requires My Citrix account. > Is vSwitch Controller essential for XCP to control and use full functions of > Open vSwitch? > This is a commercial controller from Citrix. Open source controllers based on NOX (http://noxrepo.org/) could provide similar functionality. > The point is that I can not figure out the relationship of > > XCP vs XenServer Free/Advanced Edition Basically XCP is an open source version of XenServer Free, but adding additional functionality to XCP can and has been done. > On XCP, original Linux network vs Open vSwitch I think Open vSwitch is the default now right? There is a command to switch to it, if not > For configuring network, XenCenter vs xe commands vs ovs- commands XenCenter is a front end to xe, xe is a frontend to xapi. using ovs commands directly is not a good idea if you want to use the frontends since it would confuse xapi. > For using Open vSwitch, ovs- commands vs vSwitch Controlle > ovs commands support a baseline of functionality for controlling things, but if you want something more robust/advancded check out the status of nox-based open source controllers or consider looking into a commercial controller. The Open vSwitch users list is very responsive to questions. XCP is very much evolving. Start with these: http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html and http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/06/05/xcp-on-ubuntu/ Hope that helps some. Thanks, Todd > Sorry for so many questions. > Thanks! > > Regards, > > Wayne > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Wei-Chih Chen <wcchen.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Wei-Chih Chen (éåå) >>> <wcchen.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > Hello Everyone, >>> > >>> > I am new with XCP. >>> > I've setup several hosts with XCP 1.0 and manage it through XenCenter >>> > and >>> > command console. >>> > Each host has two NICs, one (xenbr0) connected to a physical switch for >>> > Internet (said sw1), the other (xenbr3) connected to a physical switch >>> > for >>> > internal network (said sw2). >>> > >>> > I am trying to setup VMs and VLANs on xenbr3. >>> > I created a virtual bridge by "ovs-vsctl add-br brvlan2 xenbr3 2" >>> > Then add a port (portvlan2) to brvlan2: >>> > ÂÂÂÂ ovs-vsctl add-port brvlan2 portvlan2 tag=2 >>> > ÂÂÂÂ ifconfig vlan2 192.168.33.200 >>> > Now the problem is that I do know how to attach portvlan2 to VM. >>> > Could someone give me simple steps to setup VLANs using Open vSwitch >>> > and >>> > attach them to VMs? >>> > >>> > Moreover, the newly created bridges are not shown in XenCenter. >>> > If I use xe network-create, the newly created network can be shown in >>> > XenCenter. >>> > Is this because XenCenter uses xe command and does NOT support to show >>> > Open >>> > vSwitch? >>> > The question I wonder most is what is the difference to configure XCP >>> > network using xe and ovs- commands? >>> > >>> >>> You are going to want to use the xe commands related to networking. >>> >>> See >>> http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/5.6.0fp1/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#networking-concepts >>> >>> Hope that helps. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> > Thanks a lot. :) >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > Wayne >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Xen-users mailing list >>> > Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Deshane >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm >>> http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html >>> http://runningxen.com/ >> >> Thank you, Todd. >> The document helps a lot for XenServer network concepts and xe command >> control. >> >> However, I would like to try Open vSwitch because it supports more >> features like OpenFlow, NetFlow. >> It is possible for me to use these features in the future. >> Is it able to use full features of Open vSwitch in XCP 1.0? >> Or XCP has not included and combined Open vSwitch completely, and it is >> not suggested to use Open vSwitch in XCP 1.0? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> >> Wayne >> > > > -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html http://runningxen.com/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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