April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
The implementation of VLAN-networks, in OpenStack is based on allocating a static VLAN for each virtual network by the core plugin. This makes sure that all communication within the virtual network is confined to itself and no broadcast packet in one virtual network will impact another one.
To implement a VLAN based network the core plugin must configure the VLAN on the virtual switch on the compute and network nodes as well as orchestrate the physical network path, such as the physical switches that connect the compute and network nodes:

The Neutron Modular Layer-2 (ML2) plugin provides a framework to implement virtual ...
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