>From my understanding it will be product line separation. Is it correct ?
> Dan, Citrix shipped a “Citrix CloudPlatform 3.0.3”. Based on the > project now being run as an Apache project and feedback from the > community we (Citrix hat on) did not ship a CloudStack 3.0.3. The > community is working on 4.0.0 with the needed license changes as > discussed in previous threads. > > -kevin > > From: d...@soleks.com [mailto:d...@soleks.com] > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:52 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org; Kevin Kluge > Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: BIG-IP F5 support in cloud stack 3.0.x > > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks for reply. My CS installation is domain-based, i can't say how > many domains can be supported by TMOS 11.x, but on my side i checked > TMOS 10.x partition concept (access domain) was introduced there > (can't say about exact version), so even TMOS rollback will not help > me. I'll be looking around what can be done and how to adjust F5 > module to support partition model, but as i see it will not be easy > task for me. At this moment i screwed my CS installation need to fix > it. BTW do you have any information about 3.0.3 release ? > >> Dan, when we did the original F5 support in 2010 we decided not to >> use the domain concept. It didn't scale very well. IIRC there were >> at most 256 domains per device (mapping to 256 virtual networks in >> CloudStack terminology). This would have underutilized the device. >> I would suggest investigating whether this constraint has been >> relaxed in 11.x. If so you could consider moving CloudStack to a >> domain-based model. That might be more desirable long term as it >> could allow guest IP address overlap (across domains) but the changes >> would have to consider addressing and upgrade of existing deployments >> in addition to changes in the use of the F5 SDK. It will be much >> easier to adapt CloudStack to the new API... >> >> -kevin >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: d...@soleks.com<mailto:d...@soleks.com> >>> [mailto:d...@soleks.com]<mailto:[mailto:d...@soleks.com]> >>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:36 PM >>> To: >>> cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org> >>> Subject: BIG-IP F5 support in cloud stack 3.0.x >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> After several days of experiments and test, digging around source code (im >>> not programmer) i've found that BIG IP F5 with installed TMOS 11.x is not >>> supported at all. Mainly as i found BIG-IP is prefixing vlans and >>> server pools >>> (and probably other objects) with partition name, for exmaple: >>> >>> CloudStack vlan name: vlan-652 >>> >>> BIG-IP returns "/Common/vlan-652" >>> >>> From my understanding CloudStack module need to be redesigned to >>> support F5 partitioning, or partition name need to be stripped from each F5 >>> object. Could you please confirm it. >>> >>> Dan/borei. >>> >>> Soleks Data Group. >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
