Installation Guide

Table 9 Network planning
Connected to...PurposeNumberNetwork
This network connects virtual appliances
to HP 3PAR, VMware vCenter Server,
1Data Center
Management
Network
Foundation base appliance
VMware proxy appliance
VMware vCloud Networking and Security
(vCNS) and enclosures.
Enterprise appliance
VMware vCenter Server
This network connects the Foundation
base appliance, vCenter proxy appliance,
1Cloud Management
Network
Foundation base appliance
SDN appliance
network node appliances, SDN appliance network node appliances
and KVM compute nodes. This is a private
network.
VMware proxy appliance
KVM compute nodes
This network allows cloud end users to
attach public IP addresses to their
provisioned virtual machine instances.
1External Network network node appliances
A Provider Network is a data center
network routed through the existing data
at
least 1
Provider Networks
and/or Private
Networks
Cloud Data Trunk
network node appliances
center infrastructure. A Private Networkk
is created from a pool of VLANs. Both
networks support instance communication.
Overview of network topology
Networks are organized into two trunks. The Management trunk holds all infrastructure networks
that connect the virtual appliances, vCenter Server and the HP 3PAR storage system. The Cloud
Data Trunk holds the networks that connect provisioned virtual machines to the cloud.
Figure 4 Network trunks
3PAR
Foundation
base appliance
vCenter proxy
appliance
Cloud Mgmt
Network
Data Center
Mgmt Network
External
Network
Provider or
Private Networks
Cloud Data TrunkManagement Trunk
Figure 4 CloudSystem appliances and the network architecture
Enterprise
appliance
vCenter Server
Network node
appliance
SDN appliance
You can use the following interactive graphic to see how each network connects to the CloudSystem
virtual appliances. Click the play button to enable the graphic, then click a network name to
see which virtual appliances are supported by the network.
16 HP CloudSystem installation prerequisites