Multiple Vlans and Vshield

[--Norton--]

Hi All

Can VCD Handle multiple vlans within a single deployment??

If it can will it do it with the VShield that comes with it or will I need to buy a full VShield license to achieve it??

Thanks

[rlund]

What vShields product are you asking about?   Roger Lund

[admin]

vShield can handle multiple VLANs in a single deployment with the bundled vShield license.  FYI that the product is vShield Edge.

[admin]

you can use as many VLAN as your network supports (until max). you can use VLAN backed pool also and even can use VLAN ID in your vCD-NI pool. Also you can provision VLAN backed Portgroup and use that in your vCloud as Port Grp backed network pool.

vShield Edge device will give you functionalily like DHCP, NAT, Firewall, VPN, Load Balancing. It supports VLAN deployment too.

[manythanks]

maybe the confusion comes from the fact the vshiled edge support just a single vlan (network) on it's internal interface and a single vlan (network) on it's external interface , aka:2 vNIC only VM , then you need multiple VSE devices to handle many networks , then NAT rules and FW rules needed is overwelming to manage and make predictable and scalable. maybe the question should be : will VSE support multiple vNICs and routing any time soon ?