Hello!
"Building a Virtualized Network Solution" ebook (http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2014/02/19/free-ebook-microsoft-system-center-building-a-virtualized-network-solution.aspx) :
According to this textbook "A PVLAN consists of a primary and secondaryVLAN pair.", so then
Q1) what are the "primary PVLAN" and "secondary PVLAN"? ...seems the author uses these terms (VLAN or PVLAN) interchangibly...
Q2)"In promiscuous mode, hosts are on the primary VLAN and..." - given that VMM does not support promiscuous mode what's the purpose of the primary VLAN in VMM? Does it mean that primary VLAN can contain only hosts in promiscuous mode and nothing else?
Page 29 (39):
"PVLAN Isolation
Private virtual LANs (PVLANs) are often used by service providers (hosters)to work around the scale limitations of VLANs. They essentially allow network administratorsto divide a VLAN into a number of separate and isolated sub-networks which can then be allocated to individual customers (tenants)."
After reading this I conclude that should I want to have more networks than I can create using VLANs I can divide VLANs into PVLANs and use these PVLANs as separate networks, but when we later associate VM networks with PVLANs we actually do it with the VLAN pairs, not with a single primary or secondary VLAN, so the number of VM networks that I can deploy to users would not change...
a) 3 VLANs = 3 VM networks
b) After dividing these 3 VLANS into 3 PVLANs (resulting in 6 primary/secondary vlans) we still can create 3 VM networks
Q3) Is this calculation wrong?
Thank you in advance,
Michael