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Vswitch properties general tab, Quick reference, Screen details – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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The

“Vswitch Properties General tab” (page 67)

displays information about the general state

of the virtual switch.

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Displays this window in a format suitable for printing.

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The

“Vswitch Properties Network tab” (page 68)

displays network details about the virtual

switch.

Vswitch Properties General tab

The Vswitch Properties General tab shows the status, configuration properties, and port assignments
of a virtual switch.

Quick reference

Figure 41 Vswitch Properties General tab

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Goes back to the previous view, in this case the VM Manager VM Host view. When you
access the Vswitch Properties view from another VM Manager view (such as the VM Host
view), the link returns you to that previous VM Manager view.

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Displays this window in a format suitable for printing.

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Displays virtual switch configuration information.

Screen details

Table 5 Data displayed by the Vswitch Properties General tab

Description

Data

Name of the virtual switch

Vswitch Name

The status of the virtual switch:
• Up (operational)
• Down (inoperational)
• Link down (the physical network interface used by the vswitch is not running)

Status

The type of virtual switch:
• shared vswitch: can be used by more than one virtual machine that includes a virtual network

device (virtual NIC) backed by the switch

• dedicated vswitch: can be used by only one started virtual machine at a time

Type

The LAN interface on the host through which the network traffic flows

Backing LAN

Indicates whether the backing LAN interface supports Accelerated Virtual Input/Output.

AVIO is supported on HP Integrity VM Version 3.5 or later. For each virtual machine containing
an AVIO device, the VM Host OS and the guest OS must support AVIO. For more information
about AVIO requirements, see

“Creating virtual switches” (page 100)

in this manual. In addition,

see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

Supports AVIO

The set of active virtual machines that are configured to use this vswitch, are currently started, and
therefore, are using the vswitch

Actively used by

Virtual Switch (Vswitch) Properties view

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