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Bug Reference

Wiki MarkupThe Jira issue associated with this design spec is CLOUDSTACK-1043 \ [1\]

Branch

The work is being carried out in branch standalone-nic, staged in a Github repository
https://github.com/siwater/cloudstack.

Introduction

Wiki MarkupThis 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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