Thanks David for brining a good point regarding 2.18. You are correct that a VLAN should not be exposed to an end user. I will re-word the requirement to make it more specific for an admin to assign a VLAN.
Regards, Manan Shah On 12/13/12 1:24 PM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >It's very hard to have a discussion here when all of the information >to be discussed is elsewhere. Please consider posting it here for the >discussion. > >WRT 2.18 - Allowing an end user to assign a VLAN ID strikes me as >very undesirable. First, it allows users to have insight into the >underlying infrastructure when lots of work has been exerted to >abstract all of that away from end users. Secondly, it is information >leakage, because you can't allow collisions, so there will be a >failure to provision the VLAN which will tell folks that the VLAN is >in use, which could provide information as to the size of the >underlying network infrastructure or other information. > >--David > >On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Manan Shah <manan.s...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to propose a new feature for extending the nTier Apps >>feature introduced in CS 4.0. I have created a JIRA ticket and provided >>the requirements at the following location. Please provide feedback on >>the requirements. >> >> JIRA Ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-621 >> Requirements: >>https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/nTier+Apps+2.0+Req >>uirements >> >> Regards, >> Manan Shah
