Qin Wu <[email protected]> writes: > [Qin]: I agree with one tenant system may have one pNIC and one ore > multiple vNICs,
Let me zero on in this because I don't quite understand this model, and I suspect this point is leading to the back-and-forth on the terminology thread. The two terms are also used in draft-wu-nvo3-nve2nve-04.tx, which says: > o Each tenant system is corresponding to one virtual machine. > Each tenant system has only one pNIC and one or more vNIC > adapters that it uses to communicate with both the virtual and > physical networks.The pNIC and vNIC adapters each virtual > machine has belong to a single tenant. To me, a Tenant System (TS) doesn't have pNICS and vNICs. It has NICs. By definition, a TS is connected to one or more virtual networks (VNs). If it has a native connection to the DC network, that is out-of-scope for NVO3. Plus, I don't know why it would do that, or what implication it would have for NVO3. To the TS, it has NICs, but it really doesn't know whether they are physical or virtual. The whole point is that the TS just uses the NICs it has as if they were physical. Hence, it doesn't make sense to talk about a TS having both kinds of connections. Shouldn't that just be completely transparent to the TS? Why are you distinguishing vNIC and pNIC in the context of a TS? Thomas _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
