Well with 1 NIC several other compliance issues arise especially for us PCI type folk.
I have built CS into a compliant DC and had few issues, maximizing the flexibility of network types and routing, pretty much anything can be done. My CS build lived behind 3 layers of firewalls. Perhaps more specifics are required from your point about compliance. Is there a particular standard your concerned with? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 23, 2013, at 9:35 AM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > Architecture related - if you have advanced network setup - where router VMs > use 2 NICs for 2 networks - in many corp environments - dual homed NICs on > different networks for System VMs, circumvent firewall and other compliance > policies, making not compliant if you are subjected to strict compliance... > this is probably where openstack shines (not mentioning other issues) > > > Assuming end user can punch firewalls for system VMs to talk to CloudStack > and VMs underneath.. whats is the possibility of us creating another type of > "advanced network" - that is compliant with regulations and uses only 1 NIC > for SystemVMs?