Is the second go-around using advanced networking? On 3/10/13 1:54 PM, "Wei Leong" <wle...@blackducksoftware.com> wrote:
>It seems I am having a lot of trouble setting up even the simplest of >cloudstack networking configurations. > >A quick background on my setup: > >The kvm host is part of a network of machines that gets their IPs from >the router. I intend to set up cloudstack to extend our development >infrastructure, VMs in the cloud will function just like physical >machines on the network and depend on the router for dhcp and dns. My >intention is to have cloudstack manage the provisioning of VMs and >provide analysis of the cloud resources (memory, storage etc). Pretty >straightforward stuff here. > >My initial setup actually worked out ok - I created a zone with basic >networking (DefaultSharedNetworkOfferingWithSGService) and guest VMs were >assigned IPs according to the range I specified. The VMs had access to >the internet and were able to connect to other machines on the network, >but DNS did not work. My sys admin was also curious about whether the >virtual router was leasing out IPs to physical machines on the network, >could this happen? Is is better for hosts to have static IP addresses? > >I then scratched the initial setup and created a new network offering >without DHCP, and used that instead. For this configuration, no virtual >router came up, VMs seem to be getting IPs from the external router, but >none of them can connect to physical machines on the network/the internet. > >I feel like i'm close to getting the right configuration, and might just >be missing a small detail. I'm not ready to give up yet, even though I'm >out of ideas at this point. Any suggestions/help is much appreciated. >Thanks for reading! > >Wei > > >On Mar 7, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Bryan Whitehead ><dri...@megahappy.net<mailto:dri...@megahappy.net>> wrote: > >Create a new network offering without DHCP. After you do that create a new >guest network using that network offering / vlan. > > >On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Wei Leong ><wle...@blackducksoftware.com<mailto:wle...@blackducksoftware.com>>wrote: > >Is there an easy way from the UI to create a network without using the >virtual router? I'm running configured cloudstack with basic networking >and >the cloudstack server sits in our network that already has a dhcp/server >setup. I would like my guest VMs to just that instead of the virtual >router. > >According to this blog it is possible but only through the API, is there >an alternative? > >http://blog.remibergsma.com/2012/03/10/howto-create-a-network-in-cloudstac >k-without-a-virtual-router/ > >
