CISCO-VIRTUAL-NIC-MIB

        This MIB module defines MIB objects which provide
mechanisms to manage the parameters used by or
related to Virtual NIC.
        
Virtual switch extends across one or more
virtualization servers which host the VM instances.
Each virtualization server is represented as a line
card module and is assigned to a unique slot in
the virtual chassis.
        
All the ports on the virtual switch which can be
hooked up to VM VNICs or to special hypervisor ports
(e.g. vmk or vswif ports) are represented as virtual
ethernet interfaces.
        
Virtual ethernet interfaces(veths) represent
the switching ports on the virtual switch which
provide networking connectivity to virtual packet
based interfaces such as the Virtual NIC (VNIC)
interfaces defined on a Virtual Machine (VM).
        
These interfaces are configurable and provide
operational information to the network administrator.
        
The assignment of virtual ethernet interface ports
to a VM does not change when the VM is migrated.
        
Glossary:
        
APC - Asymmetric Port Channel
        
DVS - Distributed Virtual switch
        
NIC - Network Interface Card
        
NIV - Network interface virtualization
        
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
        
VEM - Virtual Ethernet Module
        
VNIC - Virtual Network Interface Card
        
VSM -  Virtual Supervisor Module
        
VM - Virtual Machine
        
VMK - Virtual Machine Kernel
        
VMKNIC - Virtual Machine Kernel Network Interface Card
        
VSWIF - a virtual management port on hosts running 
                VMware ESX.
        
UUID - Universally Unique identifier
        
connectee - Entity connected to a system using veth.
            eg: Virtual machine
        
System Diagram :
                            **************
                            *    VSM     *
                            **************
                              '       '
                             '         '
                            '           '
                           '             '
                        ********        ********
                        * VEM  *        * VEM  *
                        ********        ********
                          ' '               '
                       '      '              '
                    ******   ******       ******
                    * VM *   * VM *       * VM *
                    ******   ******       ******
    

Source file

CISCO-VIRTUAL-NIC-MIB

Last revised

26 Oct 2009, 00:00 UTC

Identity

ciscoVirtualNicMIB

Base OID

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.710