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This design proposes to expose a virtual NIC as a first class object in the CloudStack API. The pattern follows that of the Amazon Elastic Network Interface \[1\].

Purpose

This design document describes changes which exposes the virtual network interface card (NIC) as a standalone entity in the CloudStack API that may be explicitly created/deleted and attached/detached from a virtual machine.

In CloudStack 4.0 release a virtual NIC is implicitly created when a virtual machine is deployed and connected to a network. Subsequent API changes \[2\] are proposed for the 4.1 release to allow a NIC to be added/removed from a virtual machine after creation.

This design document proposes changes which expose a virtual network interface card (NIC) as a standalone entity in the CloudStack API that may be explicitly created/deleted and attached/detached from a virtual machine.

References

1. Amazon Elastic Network Interface
2. Add/Remove Network to VM

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