VLAN to VXLAN translation using VLAN-aware virtual machines

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a first virtual bridge on a first virtual local area network (VLAN)-aware virtual machine (VM) running on a first host, a VLAN tagged packet from a first VM running on the first host via a port group that spans across hosts;
• translating, by the first virtual bridge, the VLAN tagged packet from the first VM to a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) encapsulated packet based on a network property of a VM port of the first VM;
• and
• transmitting, by the first virtual bridge, the VXLAN encapsulated packet to a second VM running on a second host via a VXLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP) provided by the first VLAN-aware VM.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• deploy a service virtual machine (VM) on each of a plurality of hosts, wherein each host executes VMs running therein;
• execute a virtual bridge on each service VM;
• trunk VM ports associated with the VMs corresponding to each host into a logical port having a plurality of virtual local area networks (VLANs) via respective virtual bridges;
• create a trunk port for each service VM;
• create a sub-port for each of the VM ports that corresponds to the trunk port;
• establish a relationship between the sub-ports, the trunk ports, and network ports on virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) networks;
• and
• translate and transmit VXLAN traffic to/from the VMs using the established relationship and open flow rules via the respective virtual bridges.