Its feasible to do this, you can pick a host to deploy to (as an admin) so you know what pod it will eventually land in and its ip address space. I say file an enhancement, bring it up to dev and have it discussed and voted upon.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Dave Dunaway <dave.duna...@gmail.com>wrote: > There should be a way to have the ability to reserve an IP and still have > DHCP assign the IP by mac reservation. There's no technical reason this > wouldn't work and likely a feature a lot of people would love to see. The > only hold back is the UI not allowing you to do so. > > Ultimately, you can go to the DB and change the VM's IP in the nics table > to what you want (reboot the VM and the IP change will occur). Which is not > the preferred way to do so, but ultimately that functionality from the UI > would be ideal. > > Even going as far as intergrating IPAM functionality into the product would > be ideal. > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Geoff Higginbottom < > geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > > Simple answer - you can't. > > > > In an advanced zone, you can specify the IP address when you create a new > > VM using the API, however in a basic zone, because the IP will depend on > > which POD your VM ends up in, and as a user you cannot influence this, > > there is no way to specific the IP, even if you are a root admin. > > > > The reason it still fails when you manually change the IP is that the > > security groups feature is expecting the VM to have the IP CloudStack > > allocated it via DHCP. > > > > Regards > > > > Geoff Higginbottom > > CTO / Cloud Architect > > > > > > D: +44(0)20 3603 0542<tel:+442036030542> | S: +44(0)20 3603 0540<tel: > > +442036030540> | M: +44(0)7968161581<tel:+447968161581> > > > > geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com<mailto:geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com > > > > | www.shapeblue.com > > > > ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS > > > > > > > > On 26 Jun 2013, at 05:02, "WXR" <474745...@qq.com<http://qq.com>> wrote: > > > > cloudstack version: 4.1 > > network type: basic network > > > > When I create a new instance,the vm will get a random IP from the DHCP > > server on vrouter. > > > > If I want to: > > 1.allocate a specific ip to the vm. > > 2.allocate multiple ips to the vm. > > 3.change the vm ip from one to another. > > > > How can I achieve it? I try to bind the ip to the vm nic manually but the > > ip can not be accessed. > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views > or > > opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > > represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not > the > > intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based > > upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the > sender > > if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a > > company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is > > operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered > > trademark. > > >
