---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melan Nimesh <me...@apache.org> Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:21 PM Subject: Re: networking features support for vcloud To: "Vinod Kamble (vinokamb)" <vinok...@cisco.com> Cc: "d...@stratos.apache.org" <d...@stratos.apache.org>
Hi Vinod, On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Vinod Kamble (vinokamb) <vinok...@cisco.com > wrote: > Hi, > In spinning VM on vcloud by stratos needs to satisfy following > requirements for our use case: > 1. VM can be associated with multiple org networks > 2. We need to specify the NIC and its association with the org network > 3. We need to specify the “fixed” ip address for each interface > 4. We need to specify the MAC address for each NIC > > We are performing the above steps in launching VM instance on vcloud > through python scripts, which does following steps to meet the above needs: > (This is not through stratos) > 1. Vapp is launched in power of state from the corresponding vapptemplate > 2. In the powered of state using rest apis we modify the network > connection details of the vapp template by specifying the above information > 3. Then the vapp is powered on. > > On code investigation of stratos it looks like if we have to follow the > steps as we are doing in python scripts, then there are similar changes > required in jclouds. As the current api of jclouds starts vapp in power on > state and then there is no scope to perform above modification. > > Is this understanding correct? > AFAIK, jclouds API supports some of your above requirements such as lunch a Vapp in power off state and bring it power on after applying some settings, even we can apply setting using VCloudTemplateOptions in template building phase. I am not sure whether we can associate with multiple org networks using that API In currently implementation of Stratos org.apache.stratos.cloud.controller.iaases.Iaas class responsible for power on a VM out of a template, what about if we refactor to delegate that task to IaaS provider class? Thanks, Melan > > Thanks, > Vinod. > > > -- Melan Nimesh Jayasinghage
