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Enabling VSN in a Hypervisor Session
Restrictions:
- VSN is not supported in stacked configurations; it is only supported on standalone
units.
- VSN supports connections only with VMware and Xen hypervisors
- You can define up to eight hypervisor sessions on a switch.
- To connect with a VMware hypervisor running on an ESXi 5.0 server, you must
configure the server's firewall to allow connections only through the management IP
address. You can reconfigure the firewall by using the
esxcli network firewall
command to create a rule set that allows the IP address of a Dell Force10 switch to
pass the firewall. For detailed information, refer to How to Create Custom Firewall
Rules in ESXi 5.0.
- When you establish a VSN session with a Citrix Xen hypervisor (
access
command) that operates as a slave in a pool, the connection is established with the
master. Configuration and access information is retrieved from the entire pool. If the
slave is removed from the pool and operates as a standalone hypervisor, the VSN
session is still active with the master. In this case, information is retrieved from the
pool and not from the standalone hypervisor.
To enable VSN on an interface and connect to hypervisors on network servers:
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1
Enable VSN on an interface. vsn enable
VSN is disabled by default on switch
interfaces.
INTERFACE
2
Specify the name of a hypervisor
session and enter hypervisor
configuration mode.
hypervisor name
Enter up to 40 characters to define the
hypervisor session.
CONFIGURATION
3
Define the hypervisor type to which
you want to connect. Use the show
hypervisor supported command
to display the currently supported
hypervisor types.
type {vmware | xen-citrix}
There is no default value.
HYPERVISOR
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