[occi-wg] Syntax of OCCI API

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How would I create a "virtual lan network" called FOO and have the VMs I
create connect to it? I want to do this in certain cases where I have
multi-homed VMs in which one of the NICs is connected to the general
network and the other NICs are used to route traffic amongst themselves.

Chuck Wegrzyn
Twisted Storage


Sam Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Richard Davies
> <richard.davies at elastichosts.com
> <mailto:richard.davies at elastichosts.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On reflection, I think I'll take my comments on the network objects
>     a little
>     further - I don't think that a separate object is needed here at
>     all, and
>     believe that the configuration should be folded into the server (as
>     network.eth0.vlan, network.eth0.dhcp, etc.).
> 
>     My logic is that API objects should only exist where something
>     exists with
>     state which is persistent and independent of other objects.
> 
>     server, drives, and ownership of resources such as static IPs or
>     VLANs all
>     fulfill this.
> 
>     Network configuration does not - essentially this is just
>     configuration of a
>     network interface on a server. As such, it's much simpler to fold the
>     configuration into the server object itself, rather than splitting
>     it out
>     into a separate "configuration object" and linking to it from the main
>     "server object".
> 
> 
> Yup, been here too (I've been working on this problem for a while before
> getting suck into this).
> 
> For a public cloud like EH things are pretty simple - you just give an
> IP to a machine and away you go... they can talk to each other and if
> you must then you can pop a firewall/load balancer in front.
> 
> For anything more complex though you do need to keep track of your
> [virtual] networks separately, even if only because the client needs to
> be able to enumerate them in order to give the users something to strap
> their VMs to and (on the system management side) to link to a physical
> segment.
> 
> I'm not sure what really needs to be configured here beyond a
> label/description, but it's conceivable that a network management
> extension would be interesting for vendors like Cisco.
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
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