VLANs working, but not the way they should?

[athompson3117]

I installed PVE today and am trying to properly get it set up the way I want. The goal is to migrate off my existing ESXi homelab and onto this server. I have a bunch of VLANs here and my server VLAN ID is 3. I'm using a Unifi network here, and the native VLAN for the PVE host port on the switch is configured to VLAN 3. So I installed PVE, set it to 192.168.3.70, and everything seems to be working correctly. I created a VM of Proxmox backup server and gave it an IP of 192.168.3.71. I also made vmbr0 "VLAN aware," but when I add a VLAN to the PBS VM, it doesn't work. Nothing can see it and it can't see anything. However, when I don't add a VLAN tag to the VM, everything is working correctly.

This doesn't seem right to me, especially since I know I'll want to have VMs that aren't on VLAN ID 3 but also run in PVE. I will also mention that I installed the packages for Openvswitch because it sounded like something I might want/need to get things set up the way I want coming from ESXi, but I haven't done anything to configure that as far as I know. I would think that I would need to set the VLAN ID on the VM for it to function properly, but it seems to be working as is.

 

[athompson3117]

Update. I changed the PBS server to a 192.168.4.71. After doing this, I had to add the VLAN ID to the VM configuration to make it work.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, if its on "3" (the native VLAN for the port), I don't need to add a VLAN to the VM network configuration. However, if its on another VLAN, I do need to add the VLAN ID to the VM network config.

Again, I'm coming from ESXi where you had this virtual switch configured and you needed to put the VLAN ID on any virtaul NIC you connected to it so the ESXi vswitch would work properly.

Is my PVE setup correct and its working the way it should?

Thanks.