vShield Manager 5.1 plugin for VXLAN deployment?

[thakala]

I cannot find vShield Manager (or vCloud Networking and Security) 5.1 plugin for vCO 5.1, has it been discontinued?

I need to deploy VXLANs using vCO, I am not using vCloud Director, only vCNS with vSphere distributed switch. Should I still use vCloud Director plugin?

[thakala]

I got this working through a vShield REST API, and it was really easy!

Request:

POST https://<vsm-ip>/api/2.0/vdn/scopes/<scopeID>/virtualwires

Request Body:

<virtualWireCreateSpec>

<name>MyVXLAN</name>

<description>This VXLAN is made in vCO!</description>

<tenantId>production</tenantId>

</virtualWireCreateSpec>

This is documented in vShield API Programming Guide page 167.

[thakala]

I wrote couple articles about how to create and delete vDS VXLAN networks using vCO

http://v-reality.info/2013/04/provisioning-vds-vxlan-virtual-wires-using-vcenter-orchestrator/

http://v-reality.info/2013/04/removing-vxlan-virtual-wires-using-vcenter-orchestrator/

Articles also include some examples on how to work with XML data.

[tschoergez]

Great stuff, Tomi!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Joerg