FWIW, it is a oft-requested feature in AWS as well: http://goo.gl/cC5qY
On 11/21/12 6:41 PM, "Clayton Weise" <cwe...@iswest.net> wrote: >> I also argue that what they are asking for really is in conflict of the >>purpose of a cloud environment. > >I think this depends on the scope of who the cloud owner is. If the >owner is a single organization then yes, I would agree. However if the >owner is a service provider, than I would disagree. I know there are >larger things on the table for the ACS crew, so I'm not going to try and >make a judgment call here as to how they should prioritize because that's >really more up to the community at large and what kind of feedback they >get from their paying clients (CloudPlatform) as well. And that's not >something I think either of us have the data to make a decision on. > >That being said, I don't know what kind of work is involved in adding a >feature like this, and how much it would actually detract from the future >development of ACS. I know it's something that has come up in IRC on >more than a few occasions and it's not the first time we've seen it on >the mailing list either. I would also encourage anybody involved in the >community with the skills required to work out a tech spec on this and >put something more formal together. I think part of the issue has been >the fact (as we've seen) that there isn't a solid consensus on how to >even accomplish this, let alone the specific mechanics of how it will >work. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Boylan, James [mailto:james.boy...@orbitz.com] >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:51 PM >To: 'cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org' >Subject: Re: Multiple IP's to one instance > >I also argue that what they are asking for really is in conflict of the >purpose of a cloud environment. If you are merely after a virtualized >environment you can use vsphere, kvm with virt-manager or xenserver. >Multiple IPs per nic do nothing to improve the performance or the >functionality of a cloud environment. > >Going down the road of adding features like that would be taking valuable >development time away from tasks and features that actually benefit a >cloud architecture. While I do understand their issue, there are other >ways of implementing what they are listing as reasons that is cloud >architecture friendly. (using NAT and isolated private networks for one) > >-- James > >----- Original Message ----- >From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 06:12 PM >To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org ><cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org> >Subject: Re: Multiple IP's to one instance > >> - it is expected that there is a 'primary ip' assigned by DHCP and the >> additional ips are assigned manually by the VM owner. However additional >> ips are requested through CS API/UI. > >I am conflicted on this - I know the limitations with adding >additional interfaces. I'd almost argue for requiring number of >interfaces/IPs to be set at machine instantiation and still handing >out addresses to all interfaces via DHCP, but not all OSes will handle >that cleanly.
