On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:03:24AM +0100, CK wrote: > In the Cloudstack MS GUI (system wide capacity screen) there is a reference > to Direct IPs - what are Direct IPs? > > The only reference I can find to Direct IPs is in the admin doc...but do > not understand what it means...? > "2.7.3. Basic Zone Guest IP Addresses > When basic networking is used, CloudPlatform will assign IP addresses in > the CIDR of the pod to the guests in that pod. The administrator must add a > Direct IP range on the pod for this purpose. These IPs are in the same VLAN > as the hosts." > So Direct IPs only apply to Basic Zones or Advanced Zones as well?
The term is dated ( from the 2.x versions ) but just means direct as in direct access without going across a router/NAT. In other words just a flat network for the guest VMs. And that can exist on both adv. and basic networks. Could you file a doc bug for the Section you mention? -- Prasanna., ------------------------ Powered by BigRock.com
