Hey all,
I'm doing some UCS studying and I'm trying to understand how private-vlans work within UCS, but there's surprisingly little documentation on the subject. So far, based mostly on trial-and-error, these seem to be the rules for using pvlans in UCSM:
- only isolated type is allowed
- no promiscuous ports within UCS
- a vNIC can carry the secondary vlan ID only (no other vlans can ride alongside it, including the primary)
- the primary vlan can never be used on a vNIC
Despite this, I cannot get a VM to speak to its upstream promiscuous port/gateway. One document I found suggested the vNIC should not set the secondary vlan as native, but that seems to have no effect either way (even looking at the veth config at the CLI). The same document suggested VMware should tag the traffic, which would require the 1000V. Based on the CLI configuration, I'm guessing that's not true, but I could easily be wrong.
Does anyone know of a good guide for this, or maybe could even point me in the right direction for getting pvlans to work within UCS? Thanks!
Jeff