OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.0 Web Client User's Guide

VLAN support

OMIVV supports hypervisor deployment to a routable VLAN and you can configure VLAN support in the Deployment Wizard. In this portion of the Deployment Wizard, there is an option to specify use of VLANs and to specify a VLAN ID. When a VLAN ID is provided, it is applied to the hypervisor's management interface during deployment and tags all traffic with the VLAN ID.

Ensure that the VLAN provided during deployment communicates with both the virtual appliance and the vCenter server. The deployment of a hypervisor to a VLAN that cannot communicate to one or both of these destinations causes the deployment to fail.

If you have selected multiple bare-metal servers in a single deployment job and want to apply the same VLAN ID to all servers, in the server identification portion of the Deployment Wizard, use Apply settings to all selected servers. This option enables you to apply the same VLAN ID along with the other network settings to all the servers in that deployment job.

In this example network, the OMIVV appliance is on VLAN 5, while the vCenter and the VMkernal of the ESXi hosts being deployed are on VLAN 10. Since OMIVV does not support multi-VLAN homing, VLAN 5 must route to VLAN 10 for all systems to communicate to each other correctly. If routing is not enabled between these VLANs, the deployment fails.