On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > SDN is more or less an alternative for vlans, which he doesn't want to use > anyway. He has separate network segments already. > > There isn't very much good documentation for cloudstack networking. I > wanted to do something similar a few months back and ended up frustrated. I > had vlans, but wanted my VMS to have a public interface on a shared network > and a private interface on a shared network. In the GUI, you can only do > isolated networks in advanced mode. Once I realized that I had to create my > network through the API I realized that I could do pretty much whatever I > wanted with advanced networking. > > Outback Dingo, you should be able to do what you want by explicitly setting > the traffic labels to the bridge devices you want. Cloudstack *should* then > forego trying to create a new tagged interface and bridge. You will have to > also create a new shared networking offering through the api that only > provides DHCP and userdata. Then create a new network with that offering, > and VMs attached to that will work on your shared network. I know these are > vague instructions but I'm away from the PC.
We have tried this and it seems that any attempt to create a shared network offering fails with requiring a vlan
