Eric, If you want to use VLANs and be able specify an UP Address for a Guest Instance, you need to create an advanced Zone.
I wrote a blog article which covers creating custom Network Offerings which you may find helpful, you can find it here http://www.shapeblue.com/2012/05/10/using-the-api-for-advanced-network-management/ Kind Regards Geoff Higginbottom CTO / Cloud Architect geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com | www.shapeblue.com ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS On 8 Jun 2012, at 04:05, "Eric Reeves" <e...@alertlogic.com> wrote: So the Cloudstack 2.2 documentation refers to an "Advanced - Direct Tagged" mode, in which the VR doesn't perform any routing or NAT functions, but you can land your VMs on any VLAN (relying on pre-configured external routers). The Cloudstack 3 documentation doesn't seem to mention this, and when we tried to create an Advanced Zone tonight on a trunked vSphere 5 host, it required a Public IP range, which I don't even want to bother with. I want a Basic Zone with the ability to land VMs on various VLANs and specify the IP in my deploy API call. Am I doing something horribly wrong or missing the documentation somewhere? Thanks! Eric Reeves 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. ShapeBlue’s 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.
