Multi VLAN support for instant clone pools enables the creation of icy pools
that span multiple VLANs it introduces a GUI based option making VLAN selection
simple and quick
fold option is to use the network configured on the parent image
in this checkbox you can select one or many lands for the pool
instant clones require a virtual distributed switch with port groups
configured for static port binding with multi VLAN an additional
requirement is for fixed port allocation I'll provide more detail on this in the
next slide note this feature is exclusive to instant clones and works
only with ipv4 pools tested to 2,000 VMs power CLI must still be used to
implement multi VLAN with linked clone or full clone pools
horizon manager queries vCenter for port group information including the total
number of available ports for port group without fixed port allocation the sender
can't properly report to horizon horizon manager doesn't actually verify or even
know how or whether there are physical VLANs configured and associated to the
port groups because of this it is imperative that
all prerequisite VLAN configuration be done prior to using this feature to
create a pool as part of these prereqs IP addressing size has to match the
physical VLAN configuration the multivalent feature has built-in
distribution logic to ensure VLANs aren't over provisioned
as you can see we'll start provisioning with the least populated port groups and
add VMs evenly that the pool is provisioned
vgpu with NVIDIA grid cards is now supported with instant clones
grid profile is selected during the pool creation wizard note that only m-series
cards are supported along with the blast Xtreme protocol the gold image must be
configured for V GPU and a GPU profile selected before taking a snapshot
during the pool creation wizard the GPU profile must match the selection in the
parent image kind of power on VMs with other GPU
profiles in the same ESXi cluster will result in an error
we'll start by creating a distributed port group
production environment we'd want to make sure this was backed by a VLAN
purposes however this is sufficient since horizon manager only queries the
port group static port binding with fixed port allocation is required
next we'll look at the hardware config in this case the parent
image has already been configured for V GPU
grid profiles installed with the Nvidia virtual
installation bundle or viv
the m60 0q profile and already taken a snapshot of this vm
finally we create an instant clone pool
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notice the 3d render drop-down an option for vgpu
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there are two new fields on the vCenter settings page
settings defaults to the network configured on the gold image
by clearing the default we can configure one or more port groups for the pool
the total and available ports are reflected in the GUI
the vgpu profile must match what was configured on the gold image or
provisioning will fail
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