Re: Network architecture question

2013-04-10 Thread Justin Grudzien
I looked at Security groups and I am not sure how this solves my problems. Sure it provides guest isolation but that is through the virtual router correct? The underlying physical network --outside of cloudstack-- is still layer 2? That is what I am concerned with. When defining what IPs my

Re: Network architecture question

2013-04-10 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Please take a look at http://s.apache.org/k8w Slides 32-39 explain the networking layout in security groups in basic networking. The VR (one per pod) simply dispenses DHCP and user data. It is not a firewall. The firewall is implemented at the hypervisor level. This is what allows it to scale

Re: Network architecture question

2013-04-09 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
You can do bonded nics in basic zone. The limitation with basic zone is that the Vms cannot have multiple nics. Did you need multiple nics for your vms? If you need advanced network services such as static NAT and load balancing, advanced networking is probably your best bet (currently, unless you

Network architecture question

2013-04-08 Thread Justin Grudzien
My team has been working for three weeks with CloudStack architecture design and we are struggling to put together a network architecture that we feel will scale. From everything I can tell, CloudStack requires a a very large layer 2 network when using shared guest networks. We are looking to