How to scale Proxmox Bridge Groups (1000+)

[JDB]

Dear All

We are evaluating Proxmox as a solution coming from VMware however we have 1000 VMs all running on different VLANs using different VDS ports.

Adding 100 bridge groups to a Proxmox hosts makes a very long list that is not searchable when binding a virtual nic interface of a VM to a bridge group, adding 1000 different Bridge groups to a cluster of hosts seems like a massive nightmare, any other solution, where each VM needs to be within its own addressable VLAN?

From a high-level point of view, it's like Bridge Groups were never designed to scale and even have a theoretical limit of about 500 groups due to Linux only supporting 1000 bridge groups, and Proxmox using two groups each time, unless I'm missing something.

Thanks

JDB

 

[dietmar]

any other solution, where each VM needs to be within its own addressable VLAN?

You simply specify the VLAN tag in the VM network config (or when you create the VM).