Hello All,

I seem to be banging my head against a wall with the way Cloud Platform deals with networking, so I'm hoping you lovely people can help me shed some light on the issues?

I am trying to add vCentre to my cloud platform installation and am using the Advanced Networking options when I add my zone. However, the vSwitch configuration doesn't seem to make sense. Before going into the issue, it may help that I run through my configuration:

Required Networks:

Public:
This is basically my DMZ for all clients (their virtual routers will recieve an IP on this network)

IP Range: 192.168.10.191 to 192.168.10.250
Default Gateway: 192.168.10.254 (currently a Cisco Device)
vlan: 13
VMWare Tag: vSwitch0

Private - Management
I believe this is used for CloudPlatform management tasks.

IP Range: 192.168.15.191 to 192.168.15.250
Default Gateway: 192.168.15.254 (currently a Cisco Device)
vlan: 815
VMWare Tag: vSwitch1

I also have a Netapp vfiler that has exported my secondary storage.

Private - Guest Traffic
This will be the guest network switch.

vlan Range: 500 to 900
VMWare Tag: vswitch0

Management Server:
I have my management server that is has two NICS, one is in both the management and public networks (this in in seperate PortGroups on a dedicated vswitch).

The Issue:

So this is all well and good. At the moment, I can ping between my Management and Public vlans (bear in mind this is a lab) from my Management Server.

So when I add the zone, pod, cluster and storage the process starts to build my System VMs. The first steps to this will create me the following PortGroups:

cloud.public.13.0.1-vSwitch0
cloud.private.untagged.0.1-vSwtich0
cloud.storage.untagged.0.1-vSwitch1
cloud.private.untagged.0.1-vSiwtch1

The ones that are in italic do not have a vlan tag. This is causing the management server to loose touch with the system VMs. If I manually tag the port group or reconnect my management server/VMs to a port group with the correct tags, it all works.

So here is my question, am I setting everything up correctly, and this is just how cloudstack does it?

Is there a way I can force my portgroup for Management/Storage to use a dedicated vlan (815 in this case)?

Thanks

Paul