On 6/6/12 11:49 PM, "Geoff Higginbottom" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Whilst this would be possible if you were using Advanced Networking, >although still only by manual DB updating, and not via the GUI, you >cannot do it with Basic Networking. > >Using the API you can deploy VMs with a specific IP if you are using >Advanced networking, but you cannot with Basic networking, this is >because with Basic networking each POD has a different Guest CIDA, so if >you shut down your VM then restart it later, it could be placed on a >different POD, and get allocated a different IP. > >Geoff > Elastic IP functionality is supported in Basic zone (EIP capability defined on the network offering) when Netscaler is used as a StaticNat provider. -Alena. > > > > > >On 7 Jun 2012, at 04:02, "sebastien goasguen" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi Eric, > >I have not tried it, but your use case reminds me of Amazon Elastic >IP. Maybe you can allocate an IP, associate it with the old VM and >when your new VM is ready, disassociate and reassociate with the new >VM. It does not change the IP, but maps one to a running VM. > >I believe these ec2 API calls are available via cloudbridge. > >-Sebastien > >On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Eric Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there a clean way to manually modify the IP address of an existing >>Cloudstack VM in basic networking mode? I'm not seeing anything in the >>API that looks like what I want exactly. I could mangle the DB manually >>and trigger a re-push to the virtual router, but that seems a bit uglyŠ >> >> I see references to the IP in the following tables: >> >> nics >> usage_event >> user_ip_address >> vm_instance >> >> Here's my use case: I am performing a conversion from a set of legacy >>block device backed open source Xen VMs in to Cloudstack/vSphere for a >>Dev/QA lab. My process is currently to create a VM in CS with the same >>base OS, then run my magic rsync script that pushes everything from the >>old VM to the new one (fixing things like fstab, mtab, network config, >>and grub.cfg along the way). Then I'll shut down the old VM, and I'd >>like to assign the old IP to the new CS VM. >> >> Any thoughts on this? >> >> Thanks much in advance. >> >> Eric Reeves > > > >-- >--- >Sebastien Goasguen, Associate Professor >Clemson University, USA >864-553-4734 >http://sites.google.com/site/runseb/ > >ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and >implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to >build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue¹s expertise, combined with >CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to >deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. > >________________________________ > >This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended >solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views >or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not >necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the >intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based >upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the >sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue >Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. > >
