A VMware Integrated OpenStack deployment with VDS networking requires three VLANs.

Request your network administrator to prepare the following VLANs.

VLAN

Description

API Access network

The API Access network provide access for users to the OpenStack services through APIs or the VMware Integrated OpenStack dashboard .

  • Trunk all hosts in the Management cluster to this VLAN.

  • Make externally accessible.

  • Requires 5 or more continuous IP addresses.

Management network

The Management network carries traffic among the management components.

  • Trunk all hosts in the Management cluster to this VLAN.

  • Trunk all hosts in the Compute cluster to this VLAN.

  • The vCenter server needs to be connected to this network over L2 or L3.

  • Requires 18 or more continuous IP addresses. (21 if you add the Ceilometer component.)

Provider

The Provider network connects DHCP services with the OpenStack instances in the Compute cluster.

  • Trunk all hosts in the Management cluster to this VLAN.

  • Trunk all hosts in the Compute cluster to this VLAN.

Figure 1. VMware Integrated OpenStack VDS Physical Network