+1 on ENI-compatibility. Note that there is more than just CLOUDSTACK-645 - with ENI you can have multiple Ips per ENI - with ENI the security group is attached to the nic instead of the vm - there's additional APIs obviously to manage the lifecycle.
On 1/10/13 8:36 AM, "Simon Waterhouse" <simon.waterho...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >There is an issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-645 to >add/remove a network on VM. > >I would like to alter the interface proposed so we instead add methods to >explicitly create/destroy a NIC and attach/detach it from a VM - the >feature would then be directly analogous to the AWS Elastic Network >Interface. > >I am a newcomer to CloudStack development, but I would be happy to take >on some work in this area (write feature spec, implement API methods >etc.) to build upon the work contributed by Marcus and team - from what >I can see from CLOUDSTACK-645 much of the required functionality is >already in place; I am just suggesting we expose it in a slightly >different way... > >Regards >Simon
