I'd ask for this be to enabled in vmware/vsphere is possible. There are by far more vmware users in corporate/enteprise world than kvm and xen.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:26 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Anthony Xu; Manan Shah; Angeline Shen; Alena Prokharchyk > Subject: Re: [ACS41] Discuss CLOUDSTACK-2463 being resolved in 4.1 vs 4.2 > > Adding relevant folks from previous discussions of this feature to the CC > list. > > One other note... From what I can tell, the work intended for 4.2 to re- > enable security groups within an advanced zone is limited to Xen and KVM. I > believe that Nicolas (the issue reporter) is using VMware. > > We do have a note from Wei (below) highlighting his desire to see this > feature as well (although, Wei, what HV are you using?). > > Thoughts on what to do? > > -chip > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:20:06AM -0700, Alex Huang wrote: > > I'm a very strong believer that CloudStack releases should always be > upgradable from previous releases. We can't strand our user base on a > previous release. > > > > --Alex > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Wei ZHOU [mailto:ustcweiz...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:28 AM > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Subject: Re: [ACS41] Discuss CLOUDSTACK-2463 being resolved in 4.1 > > > vs 4.2 > > > > > > Half of our platforms are on 2.2.14 (advanced zone with security groups). > > > These platform work well. We are looking for a way to upgrade to 4.* > > > for more functionalities, so that we do not need to take the > > > difference of cloudstack version into account in development. > > > > > > As I know, the citrix guys are working on this. Jessica Wang said > > > the feature will be merged into master branch soon.It looks the coding is > almost done. > > > > > > I hope this feature could be included in 4.1, of course. However, we > > > also need some days for testing and bug fix. It means cloudstack 4.1 > > > will delay for uncertain days (it is very bad, right?). It is a difficult > > > choice. > > > > > > I do not know how many companies are using 2.2.14 (advanced zone > > > with security groups) and eager to upgrade. I will join the dev and > > > testing if needed. > > > > > > > > > 2013/5/15 Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> > > > > > > > Sebastian re-opened CLOUDSTACK-2463 due to users wanting to > > > > upgrade from 2.x to 4.1. This relates to the security groups > > > > feature being available when using VLANs in an advanced networking > > > > zone. This feature was apparently broken in the 3.x series, and > > > > is not slated to be reintroduced until 4.2. > > > > > > > > This is a horrible situation, and one that we've now encountered > > > > for a third time. > > > > > > > > IMO, we have 2 very specific options: > > > > > > > > 1) We pull that new feature into 4.1, and do the relevant testing. > > > > > > > > 2) We do not pull that feature into 4.1, and release as is with a > > > > strong message in the release notes highlighting that we know that > > > > 2.x to 4.1 will not support it (and state that those users > > > > requiring the feature should wait for 4.2). > > > > > > > > At this point, I don't have a preference. We probably need to > > > > understand the effort for (1), as well as understand who would do > > > > that work (dev AND testing). > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > -chip > > > > > >
