Users Guide

Network types

NOTE: You can select a network type for MX7000 chassis only.

Table 14. Network types

Network types Description

General Purpose (Bronze) Used for low priority data traffic.

General Purpose (Silver) Used for standard or default priority data traffic

General Purpose (Gold) Used for high priority data traffic

General Purpose (Platinum) Used for extremely high priority data traffic

Cluster Interconnect Used for cluster heartbeat VLANs

Hypervisor Management Used for hypervisor management connections such as the ESXi

management VLAN

Storage - iSCSI Used for iSCSI VLANs

Storage - FCoE Used for FCoE VLANs

Storage - Data Replication Used for VLANs supporting storage data replication such as for

VMware Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)

VM Migration Used for VLANs supporting vMotion and similar technologies

VMWare FT Logging Used for VLANs supporting VMware Fault Tolerance

Edit or delete a configured network

1. Go to the VLANs page by clicking Configuration > VLANs.

2. Select a network from the list, and then click Edit in the right pane to change the name, description, VLAN ID, or the network type.

NOTE:

VLAN configuration on M1000e and FX2 chassis is not supported in an IPv6 infra, as the IPv6 addressing is

not supported by M I/O Aggregator (IOA) and FN I/O modules.

NOTE: The changed VLAN name and IDs are not updated on the target MX7000 chassis after a stateless deployment

task is run.

3. To delete the network, select the network and click Delete.

4. Click Yes.

Export VLAN definitions

The network definitions available in OpenManage Enterprise can downloaded either as a CSV or as a JASON file.