[Openstack] Allocating dynamic IP to the VMs

Aaron Rosen arosen at nicira.com
Mon Mar 18 17:49:40 UTC 2013


In that case you have two options:

1) use floating ips
2) create a provider network that bridges to the same physical of the hosts
that you want to be able to contact your vms.

Aaron

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage <
77.chathura at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Sylvain,
>
> There must be a way of doing this without having to do anything with my
> default gateway of my physical network? . Even if I have to I do not wan to
> do anything to the physical gateway. All I need is a way to let the VMs get
> a dynamic IP from the physical network. How can I do this. For example this
> can be done on virtual box using a bridge adapter which maps the VM in to
> the physical network.
>
> On 18 March 2013 16:05, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com> wrote:
>
>>  Could you please tell me your "physical network" CIDR ?
>> Anyway, what you need is not requiring having a floating IP pool inside
>> the same network, you can also play with static routing : if your physical
>> host does have a default gw, you can create a static route from this gw to
>> the VM network gateway. And on the VM network gateway, do the same...
>>
>> -Sylvain
>>
>> Le 18/03/2013 16:53, Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage a écrit :
>>
>>   Hey Sylvain,
>>
>>  Basically what I need is to have the VMs mapped to my physical network
>> so that my physical hosts can directly access the VMs. How can I do this?
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 18 March 2013 15:50, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't understand your business. Should you have a 192.168.1.0/24network for management, you could also assign an external network with
>>> Quantum based on the same subnet (ie. 192.168.1.0/24).
>>> When creating a floating IP pool, Quantum does require at least 3 things
>>> :
>>>  - the CIDR
>>>  - the beginning and ending IPs
>>>  - the external gateway
>>>
>>> So, based on what I previously said, you only need to create a
>>> 192.168.1.0/24 in Quantum with .1-.100 (for example) as the range, .254
>>> being the external gateway.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Sylvain
>>>
>>> Le 18/03/2013 16:29, Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage a écrit :
>>>
>>>  anyone?
>>>
>>> On 17 March 2013 21:33, Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage <
>>> 77.chathura at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After reading a little bit more, I think I have found what I need. It
>>>> is  a provider network that I need for the VMs so that they can get access
>>>> to the other resources in my main network ( such as other physical hosts
>>>> that are connected to the same network ).
>>>>
>>>>  My question is, is it possible to do this alongside the use case that
>>>> I have followed ( Provider router with private networks)?
>>>>
>>>>  If so how can I do this?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   On 16 March 2013 01:46, Chathura M. Sarathchandra Magurawalage <
>>>> 77.chathura at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I want to know how I can allocate a dynamic IP to the VM from the
>>>>> same network as the openstack hosts (controller/network-node/compute node)
>>>>> network/management network . For example, in virtual box you can give your
>>>>> VM an IP from the host's network using a Bridge adapter. How can I do this
>>>>> in openstack?
>>>>>
>>>>>  From what I understand floating IP's are used when you have a public
>>>>> IP
>>>>>  (which is static) to be allocated to VM's.
>>>>>
>>>>> My openstack installation architecture:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/basic-install/content/basic-install_architecture.html
>>>>>
>>>>>  Quantum use case:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/use_cases_single_router.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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