Unfortunately, I do not manage the network, and do not have access to the DHCP server. This means that I do not have a subnet of IPs that I can simply hand out freely to my VMs. If I want a VM to have a public IP then it must make a request to the campus DHCP server. There are special cases where I can assign static IPs to servers, but this is infeasible for the majority of the VMs I will create since they will be used by students to complete assignments in class, and will only exist during the course of a semester.<br>
<br>So, as I understand things so far, OpenStack assumes that I have my own subnet of public IPs that I can freely use for my VMs? I can't imagine this being a reasonable design assumption to make on their part. Perhaps I'm overlooking something?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.joyce@cloudscaling.com" target="_blank">matt.joyce@cloudscaling.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was thinking that as well. But the only reason I could think of that he'd be forced to grab public IPs from dhcp was that he had no access to the DHCP server and network infrastructure. I just kind of assumed that would mean that nova would not be able to allocate the IP for intance in any manner congruent with nova's needs.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>-Matt</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><br>
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