The reason to choose multiple ips is there is a limit (I think it is 7) on the hypervisor about number of nic can VM have. For a nic you can have more than 7 ip addresses. The multiple ips feature is supported in the basic zone also.
I think multiple nics feature is more useful when user need a nic in different network. Thanks, Jayapal > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013 10:13 PM > To: Saksham Srivastava > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Add/Remove Network to VM] Multiple NICs on same Guest > Network > > The functionality was duplicated from deploy allowing multiple NICs, and I > wasn't involved in the discusion as to why that was decided. There could be > other reasons why that was put in place, I don't know. At any rate it doesn't > hurt anything in particular, and I'm not sure how many are using the > capability in 4.0 and earlier, but they may have gotten used to it. > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Saksham Srivastava < > saksham.srivast...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > We have a feature Multiple IPs on the same NIC > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Multiple+IP+add > > ress+per+NIC > > > > Isn't the functionality covered by this feature. > > > > I do not see a strong use case for having both the features (Multi NIC > > in same network and Multi IP per NIC). > > Should we allow only one of them, as they both tend to serve the same > > purpose, or am I missing something? > > > > Thanks, > > Saksham > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Marcus Sorensen [shadow...@gmail.com] > > *Sent:* Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:03 PM > > *To:* Saksham Srivastava > > *Cc:* dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > *Subject:* Re: [Add/Remove Network to VM] Multiple NICs on same > Guest > > Network > > > > I believe it was allowed because one can also create multiple NICs > > on the same network while deploying a VM. > > > > There may be people doing that to get multiple IPS auto-assigned to a VM. > > On Apr 13, 2013 3:28 AM, "Saksham Srivastava" < > > saksham.srivast...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Using addNicToVirtualMachine API user can add multiple NICs to a VM > >> > >> I am also able to add multiple NICs to a VM on the same isolated > >> guest network. > >> > >> Is this a valid scenario?? > >> If yes what could be the use case for the same? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Saksham > >> > >>
