Seting VLAN priority in the vSwitch

[shaharklein]

Hi

I'm looking for an API to set the VLAN priority bits

I'm using vijava but any way will do

Thanks ahead

Shahar Klein

[William Lam]

Can you please provide an example of what you mean by VLAN 'priority'?

Anything you can modify from the vSphere Client you can do with the vSphere API (e.g. standard vSwitches or vDS) and this can be done using VI Java (Steve Jin's version is much better) or vSphere SDK for Perl or PowerCLI,etc. these are the various scripting and programming language bindings that exists to communicate with the vSphere APIs.

The API reference document is a great place to start: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html

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[shaharklein]

VLAN priority:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1p

So basically as I am able to set the VLAN-ID when configuring a Port Group, I would also like to set a priority to this VLAN.

I agree that the first place to look is vSphere client and I did, but I couldn't find it in the Port Group dialog box

Thanks again

Shahar

[William Lam]

I'm pretty sure this is not possible with configuring a VLAN VMware vSwitch, that may be the case on physical switches but not vSwitches. This may be a configurable item within the vDS (virtual distributed switch but you would need to look into that to see if its possible. If you can do it via the GUI,t hen yes there is an API to modify the vSwitch configuration but I don't believe this is the case with this option and on standard vSwitch

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