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VSPEX Configuration Guidelines
VMware Horizon View 5.3 and VMware vSphere for up to 2,000 Virtual
Desktops Enabled by Brocade Network Fabrics, EMC VNX, and EMC Next-
Generation Backup
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Brocade AMPP (Automatic Migration of Port Profiles) technology enhances
network-side virtual machine migration by allowing VM migration across
physical switches, switch ports, and collision domains. In traditional
networks, port-migration tasks usually require manual configuration
changes as VM migration across physical server and switches can result in
non-symmetrical network policies. Port setting information must be
identical at the destination switch and port.
Brocade VCS Fabrics support automatically moving the port profile in
synchronization with a VM moving to a different physical server. This allows
VMs to be migrated without the need for network ports to be manually
configured on the destination switch.
Port Profile
A port profile contains the entire configuration needed for a VM to gain
access to the LAN. The contents of a port profile can be LAN
configuration, FCoE configuration, or both.
Specifically, the port profile will contain the VLAN rules, QoS rules and
Security ACLs. Depending on the hypervisor there are two ways to
configure port profiles - manually or automatically. VDX switches support
VMware vCenter integration and this is the preferred method.
vCenter Integration
Note: Before vCenter Integration please make sure required VLAN
configuration has been completed on ESXi Hosts.
Brocade best practice is to separate network traffic on different VLANs as
shown:
VLAN Name
VLAN ID
VLAN Description
Storage VLAN
20
This VLAN is for NFS traffic
Cluster VLAN
30
This VLAN is for cluster live
migration
Management
VLAN
10
Management VLAN
We are using VLAN 20 for storage (NFS) traffic in this deployment and
hence that needs to be configured in the Port Group properties.
Step 6: vCenter
Integration for
AMPP