Saturday, 26 August 2017

Vmotion/Layer-2/Layer-3

Vmotion/Layer-2/Layer-3

Why Layer-2 required eventhough vmotion can be done  in Layer-3 in Vsphere-6 ?


Even if the VM.1 can move from one network  to another network through layer-3 using separate TCP/IP Stack introduced in Vsphere-6, the ip address of the VM.1 will not be reachable after movement if there is no Layer-2 between hosts.So Layer-2 connectivity required ,even if Vmotion can be done  using Layer-3.

Stretched Vlan Technologies like VXVLAN  can be implemented for having Layer-2 over Layer-3 .





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