On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Kelven Yang <kelven.y...@citrix.com> wrote: > 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
It would be nice if that were the case, but unfortunatly from our experience its hasnt been Im finding it quite difficult to comprehend why its become a never ending battle to get such a simple configuration done correctly. Almost to the point where i question the use of cloudstack at all..... it should in essence just be easy to accomplish what we wished, without CS in the mix XCP was perfectly capable of doing what we needed without all these VLAN hurdles cs imposes > > 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.......... >
