Murali Reddy created CLOUDSTACK-655:
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             Summary: framework for CloudStack to orchestrate virtual network 
appliances to provide network services
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-655
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-655
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: New Feature
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
          Components: Network Controller
            Reporter: Murali Reddy
            Assignee: Murali Reddy
             Fix For: 4.1.0


With the availability of virtual network appliances that can provide L2-L7 
network services from multiple vendors its desirable to have a framework 
through which support for virtual network appliances can be integrated.

Main requirement would be to orchestrate provisioning the network appliance as 
VM from the template. Current Virtual Network appliance manager which actually 
orchestrates spinning up virtual router, can be generalised to provide abstract 
implementation of virtual network appliance provisioning. Then specific 
implementation for virtual router, Vyatta, NetScaler VPX etc can be extended 
out of abstract implementation.

Also, CloudStack will need a driver model for server resources that implements 
hypervisor support, so that network appliance specific logic to add nic's, 
bridge, configure IP address etc can be plugged-in to hypervisor specific 
resource layer.

Apart from providing framework, I would like use this framework and add support 
for provisioning NetScaler VPX as network appliance providing EIP/ELB service 
to the guest network in the advanced zone.

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