Nope, basic networking the second time too. On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:25 AM, "Chiradeep Vittal" <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote:
> 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/ >
