UCS Technology Labs VM-FEX on UCS

VM-FEX with PassThru Switching (PTS)

Last updated: April 11, 2013

Task
Migrate VM guest machine Win2k8-www-2 to the new VM-FEX DVS and configure it for
PassThru Switching (PTS).
Ensure that Server1 connected to N5K1 can ping the guests.

Configuration
In vCenter, in the left pane, right-click Win2k8-www-2 and click Edit Settings.

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Click Network Adapter 1 and click the drop-down on the right to change the port group to VM110_PoProf (VM-FEX-DVS1).

If all we want to use is PassThru Switching, an E1000 adapter type is suitable. Note that
DirectPath I/O is not supported on this adapter type. Click OK.

In the right pane, click the Configuration tab, select vSphere Distributed Switch, and notice
that the VM is now a part of the DVS.

Verification
Back in UCSM, in the left navigation pane, click the VM tab, expand Virtual Machines, Host
Blade 1/1, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Win2k8-www-2, and click vNIC0. In the right
pane, click the VIFs tab and notice the two VIFs, one to each Fabric. Only one is active for
forwarding, although both appear as operationally active. This is because UCSM pre-provisions
all fabric-failover-enabled vNICs on both FIs, but only forwards traffic out of the designated FI. The
other FI is fully ready if any network failure occurs on the primary FI.

In NX-OS on UCS-FI-A:

INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)# sh int br | in Veth

Vethernet

VLAN

Type Mode

Status Reason

Speed

Veth709

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth711

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth713

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth716

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth717

117

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth32769

110

eth trunk up

none

auto

INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)#

In NX-OS on UCS-FI-B:

INE-UCS-01-B(nxos)# sh int br | in Veth

Vethernet

VLAN

Type Mode

Status Reason

Speed

Veth710

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth712

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth714

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth715

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth718

117

eth trunk up

none

auto

Veth32769

110

eth trunk up

none

auto

INE-UCS-01-B(nxos)#

From Server1 connected to N5K1, try to ping the guest at the IP address 10.0.110.212. We can
see that traffic works just through our FIs and down to our VEM running on our VM-FEX DVS.

Back in NX-OS on FI-A, we can see that we have packets matched from the ping.

INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)# sh int Veth 32769

Vethernet32769 is up
Bound Interface is port-channel1280
Hardware: Virtual, address: 547f.eec5.7d40 (bia 547f.eec5.7d40)
Encapsulation ARPA
Port mode is trunk
EtherType is 0x8100
Rx
6 unicast packets 15 multicast packets 1 broadcast packets
22 input packets 2245 bytes
0 input packet drops
Tx
8 unicast packets 11 multicast packets 51 broadcast packets
70 output packets 6419 bytes
0 flood packets
0 output packet drops
INE-UCS-01-A(nxos)#

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