Thank you for your quick response, Wei. It was helpful.

Regards,

Willard

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 7:36 AM Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> In the advanced zone with security groups, you can only create Shared
> networks. L2 and isolated/VPC are not supported. (In my opinion, we could
> support L2 as well).
> In the advanced zones, you can create Shared/L2/Isolated/VPC, but vms do
> not have security groups.
>
> Advanced zone with SG is suitable for public cloud providers, and advanced
> zone without SG is suitable for private clouds.
> There is an idea from some years ago, to combine these two types into one,
> but not implemented yet. It is very complicated.
>
> -Wei
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 12:45, Will Conrad <wcon...@hivelocity.net.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > HI Community!
> >
> > My company is building a cloudstack implementation and have discovered
> > that security-group enabled advanced zones seem to function unexpectedly
> > differently than non-security-group enabled advanced zones. After
> creating
> > a security-group enabled advanced zone, when adding new networks to this
> > zone, we seem to have lost the choices of "L2" and "isolated". Is this
> > normal? Is this the way security groups were designed to function? I did
> > read through the documentation for security groups, and noticed the
> > "limitations" expressed as well as saw the documentation that VPC are not
> > supported in security-group enabled zones. I'm looking for further
> > clarification.
> >
> > As depicted in the below screenshot, "shared" is now the only option
> where
> > before "L2" and "isolated" were also options.
> >
> > Have I missed something? Have I misinterpreted something? Is there
> further
> > documentation that might describe the nuances of using security groups in
> > advanced zones?
> >
> > Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Willard Conrad
> > DevOps Engineer
> > Hivelocity, LLC
> >
> > [image: image_720.png]
> >
>

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