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With the OMNI plugin installed, port groups (VLANs) created in the vSphere Client are automatically propagated to the SmartFabric switches and associated with the VxRail node interfaces.
In this example, a port group named Application is created in the vSphere Client as follows:
The VMware HCIA Distributed Switch > Configure > Settings > Topology screen appears as shown in Figure 111.
Figure 111. Application port group created on VLAN 30
The port group created in the vSphere client is propagated to the SFS switches as a virtual network, and the VxRail node interfaces are automatically added to the virtual network.
Note: Interfaces for statically onboarded devices, such as the non-VxRail PowerEdge server added in the previous section, are not automatically added to new virtual networks.
This is validated with the show virtual-network command on the leaf switches.
Note: In the two command output examples that follow, other virtual networks have been removed from the output for brevity. Refer to Figure 106 for the VxRail node locations in the topology.
The output below from Leaf1A shows that virtual network 30 was created, and the three VxRail node interfaces, ethernet1/1/1-1/1/3, are members of the virtual network. The output from Leaf1B, not shown, is the same.
S5248F-Leaf1A# show virtual-network
Codes: DP - MAC-learn Dataplane, CP - MAC-learn Controlplane, UUD - Unknown-Unicast-Drop
Virtual Network: 30
VLTi-VLAN: 30
Members:
VLAN 30: port-channel1, port-channel1000, ethernet1/1/1, ethernet1/1/2, ethernet1/1/3
VxLAN Virtual Network Identifier: 30
Source Interface: loopback2(172.30.0.0)
Remote-VTEPs (flood-list): 172.30.0.1(CP)
Note: The output above is from a topology using an L2 uplink from Leaf1A and Leaf1B to the external network. Port-channel1 is the L2 uplink in this example. Port-channel 1000 is always the VLTi.
The output below from Leaf2A shows that virtual network 30 was created, and the single VxRail node interface, ethernet1/1/4, is a member of the virtual network. The output from Leaf2B, not shown, is the same.
S5248F-Leaf2A# show virtual-network
Codes: DP - MAC-learn Dataplane, CP - MAC-learn Controlplane, UUD - Unknown-Unicast-Drop
Un-tagged VLAN: 4080
Virtual Network: 30
VLTi-VLAN: 30
Members:
VLAN 30: port-channel1000, ethernet1/1/4
VxLAN Virtual Network Identifier: 30
Source Interface: loopback2(172.30.0.1)
Remote-VTEPs (flood-list): 172.30.0.0(CP)