Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Adding Open vSwitch IntPort

In Open vSwitch, it is possible to give the host or physical node access to a VLAN through the configured Open vSwitch bridge. This is done by creating an Open vSwitch component called IntPort. In simple words, an IntPort splits a VLAN, which we can configure to assign the IP information. This is useful to give the Proxmox node access to a VLAN. For example, our example Proxmox node pmx-01 is currently configured to use the Linux bridge, vmbr0. If we want to use Open vSwitch instead, we will have to create an Open vSwitch IntPort to give the node access to the Open vSwitch bridge utilizing the VLAN. The following parameters need to be added to the network configuration. ens18 is our main physical network interface ...