I completely agree with Thomas.  This had me scratching my head too. -
Larry

On 4/19/13 7:06 AM, "Thomas Narten" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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
>
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