Underlying CloudStack infrastructure actually does not prevent you from creating a non-isolated guest network without a VLAN, making VLAN mandatory for these networks is unfortunately posted at CloudStack business layer, I think we should fix this problem to make people(like Outback)'s life easier.
Kelven On 8/13/12 7:02 PM, "Outback Dingo" <outbackdi...@gmail.com> wrote: >ok we caved in and finally hijacked a vlan capable switch and >reconfigured our whole environment to comply with CS and its >requirements for vlans >We literally reconfigured our whole environment to accommodate the >forced use of VLANs by cloudstack for advanced networking. Everything >prior >ran perfectly with XCP and no VLANs, multi-homed systems, XCP hosts >and all VMs had a public and a private interface, and backups worked >fine. >however adding CS, we have now had to reconfigure everything (65 >machines now require VLAN tags) ...... so consider us assimilated and >trying to play nice >it is currently to the point where we wish to configure XCP hosts and >get them on the vlan...... to no avail......... >Im sure someones configured XCP hosts for VLANs but we cant find >anything other really then this > >http://ronnybull.com/2011/08/03/xen-cloud-platform-xcp-setting-up-a-vlan/ > >which we tried and it doesnt appear to work..... after plugging the >XCP host into a vlan 500 tagged port we couldnt ping the ip >any hints on how to get past this blocker............. >So close....... yet soooooooooooooo far..........