btzq commented on issue #10479: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/10479#issuecomment-2689460435
Mmm its like this: VPCs Will use system VMs like the Virtual Router to provide the functionality for VPCs to work. Such as Routing, DHCP, Load Balancing etc If you dont want to use Virtual Router, you can create L2 Networks using Cloudstack. Its just a simple network that doesnt do anything on its own. So, u will need to have some sort of ‘device’ to provide features such as firewall, routing etc. To do that, Cloudstack has a feature called VNF (Virtual Network Function). It is where you can boot up a VM using an ISO, that had a virtualised network applicance in it. So the most common use case of it is things like PFsense, vyos etc. It is possible to passthrough hardware appliances to a VM which allows u to have some form of integration with ‘hardware’. But that is not recommended unless u have very specific use cases (and u have to manage it outside of cloudstack). VNF is recommended instead because u can resize the VM according to ur load and save costs. Furthemore, hardware based appliances are pretty expensive… software based can be cheaper and have same performance. In the cloudstack docs, though it talks about some possible integration with hardwares such as netscalet and palo alto, i highly dont recommend it. It was written maybe 9 years ago and is no longer maintained. But again it is easier to answer if u share ur specific goal? Like what hardware are u trying to integrate and why? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cloudstack.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
