[ovirt-users] Is a dedicated oVirt mgmt VLAN still needed for oVirt host nodes?

[Christopher Cox]

On 09/15/2015 03:28 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>
> Il 15/Set/2015 05:10, <ccox at endlessnow.com <mailto:ccox at endlessnow.com>> ha scritto:
>  >
>  > We have an oVirt environment that I inherited.  One is running 3.4.0 and
>  > one is running 3.5.0.
>  >
>  > Seem in both cases the prior administrator stated that a dedicated VLAN
>  > was necessary for oVirt mgmt.  That is, we could not run multiple tagged
>  > VLANs on a nic for a given oVirt host node.
>  >
>  > Does any of this make sense?  Is this true?  Is it still true for more
>  > contemporary versions of oVirt?
>  >
>  > My problem is that our nodes are blades and I only have two physical nics
>  > per blade.  In our network for redundancy we need to have the two nics
>  > have the same VLANs so that things failover ok.  Which means we have to
>  > share the oVirt mgmt network on the same wire.  That's the ideal.
>
> Hy, My opinion:
>
> ovirt-engine supports configuration of the ovirtmgmt as a non-vm network,
> untagged. And on top of that nic (bond in your possible specific case) configure
> all of the VLANs.
> If you configure it as a vm network and want to put on the bond other networks
> too, then you have to configure both the ovirtmgmt and the other ones as tagged
> VLANs, you cannot mix tagged and untagged in this case.
> Or at least it was so that I remained in terms of configuration.
> Valid for 3.4 and 3.5, i think.
> Can anyone of the net part maintainers confirm?

The import oVirt setup is 3.4 based.. so it's important that we can run all the 
vlans on the same nic for that version.
Thanks to any who can verify or confirm.