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Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Categories Action Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 23, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging these clusters even though the VLAN ID tag and network are the same. Would like Turbonomic to identify networks off of VLAN ID vs. portgroup name so this is no longer a boundary in our superclusters.


We would like Turbonomics to be able to move VMs between the vDS example below.


Example:

vDS-Legacy

Portgroup name = VPG1234


vDS-ACI

Portgroup name = VPG1234-ACI




Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 30, 2022

    Fully agree with this, both as a customer over 8 years ago setting up superclusters on VDI at Aetna and having seen this across multiple customers. Regardless of whether the VLAN TAG mis-matches intentionally or due to configuration typo the backing VLAN is what's actually important to understand in terms of where a VM can live. This leads down the path of reconfiguring the VLAN on a VM during a move and whatever nuance comes with that but is also a large differentiator in terms of understanding a datacenter and managing workloads.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 30, 2022

    Also agree here, our naming across clusters is generally based on Distributed Switch per cluster, not per multiple clusters, while backing vlan stay the same names often differ. Additionally, we have started to see much more pvlan configurations on newer vsphere deployments.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 28, 2022

    This has come up in the past and one broad solution would be to allow the merging of networks within our platform. Since naming is often arbitrary, allowing our clients to merge networks in policy gives them the ability to define what networks are related.

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