International Business Machines Corporation
Network layer method of configuration of a bare-metal server in a virtual network

Abstract:

Methods, systems and software program products for configuring a virtual network port for a physical server to support packets transfer between the physical server and other network nodes in a virtual network, comprising transmitting one or more configuration Protocol Data Units (PDU) comprising extension configuration message(s) of a network management protocol to a network circuitry connecting a physical server to a network. One or more of the extension configuration message comprise one or more virtual network settings for a virtual network port mapping the physical server in a virtual network. The network circuitry is configured to deploy the virtual network port to support exchange of packets between the physical server and one or more of a plurality of nodes of the virtual network by encapsulating and de-capsulating outgoing and incoming packets according to one or more virtual network encapsulation protocols using one or more of the virtual network settings.