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The work is being carried out in branch standalone-nic, staged in a Github repository
https://github.com/siwater/incubator-cloudstack.
Introduction
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This design proposes to expose a virtual network interface card (NIC) as a first class object in the CloudStack API. The pattern follows that of the Amazon Elastic Network Interface \[[2\].
Purpose
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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 \ [3\] have been made in 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.
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The following is a high level commentary on description of the changes made:
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Attribute | Description |
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id | Id of the NIC |
networkid | Id of the network to which NIC is connected |
networkname | Name of the NIC network |
instanceid | Id of the virtual machine to which NIC is attached |
netmask | IPv4 netmask |
gateway | IPv4 gateway |
ipaddress | Primary IPv4 address of the NIC |
isolationuri | Isolation URI |
broadcasturi | Broadcast URI |
traffictype | Traffic type |
type | Type of the NIC |
isdefault | Indicates if this the default NIC |
macaddress | MAC address of the NIC |
ip6gateway | Address of IPv6 gateway |
ip6address | Primary IPv6 address of the NIC |
ip6cidr | IPv6 address CIDR of the NIC |
securitygroup(*) | List of security groups associated with the NIC |
secondaryipaddress(*) | List of secondary IP addresses for the NIC |
UI flow
The required UI components are TBD.
Appendix
Appendix A: Implementation Phases
The work will be undertaken in two phases:
Phase 1 - Implement NIC as a standalone entity
This phase will implement the majority of the new functionality; adding the capabilities to create and delete NICs, attach and detach them from a virtual machine and provide a query (list) service to enumerate the NICs in the system. It will provide the ability to associate one or more security groups with a NIC (but not make any changes to how security groups are applied to a VM/Nic)
The completion of this phase will have little impact on the rest of the CloudStack system, as the new features will be relatively standalone. The idea is to be able to add the new code to the existing CloudStack codebase with relatively little risk, and be able to standalone test the new features before fully integrating them into the system.
Phase 2 - Integrate standalone NIC
This phase will integrate the standalone NIC code with the rest of the system. Any existing APIs will be modified at this stage, and where necessary commands will be merged (e.g. secondary IP address work has also introduced a "list NICs" command and an "update NIC" command which we may wish to combine with the ones produced here.
In addition the work will be carried out to modify the implementation of security groups so that they are applied to a virtual NIC only.
Appendix B: Testing
Unit Tests
Unit tests are provided for the create and delete NIC commands
Integration Tests
A collection of integration tests for the create/delete/list/attach/detach NIC commands are provided in the test/integration/smoke folder (see test_standalone_nic.py).
Testing to date has been limited to the XenServer platform.Appendix B:
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