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 This proposal simplifies the process of managing shared networks and allows an external network hardware to act as router instead of a VirtualRouter.

References

• PLUGIN

• https://github.com/globocom/GloboNetworkAPI

• https://github.com/globocom/GloboNetworkAPI-WebUI

• https://github.com/globocom/GloboNetworkAPI-client-java

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-7995

• https://reviews.apache.org/r/28573/

Document history

• 1.0 - Initial version

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• All new files are in plugins/network-elements/globonetwork

• api/src/com/cloud/network/Network.java: Created new provider called GloboNetwork

• api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/network/ExternalNetworkDeviceManager.java: Created new device called GloboNetwork

• api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/api/ApiConstants.java: GuruName constant

• api/src/org/apache/cloudstack/api/response/NetworkResponse.java: Included GuruName in NetworkResponse

• client/pom.xml: Included plugin dependency

• client/tomcatconf/commands.properties.in: declared all new commands (refer to Web Services API section)

• plugins/pom.xml: included plugin module

• server/src/com/cloud/api/ApiResponseHelper.java: Included GuruName in NetworkResponse

• ui/scripts/system.js: Detail view of plugin configuration and vlan/network environment association

• ui/scripts/globonetwork.js: UI integration with globonetwork plugin

• ui/scripts/sharedFunctions.js: ability for regular users to restart and remove shared networks managed by GloboNetwork

• …. others (ui/scripts/sharedFunctionsnetwork.js): included form to create network in GloboNetwork

Known Issues

• After enabling GloboNetwork provider, a new network guru (GloboNetworkGuru) becomes active for deploying and managing shared network offerings. This conflicts with DirectNetworkGuru. Therefore, when creating new networks with a shared network offering, two networks are deployed, one for each guru. A possible fix is to create a new relationship between network offering and network guru, so that each offering only has one network guru associated to it.

• UI for networks now include three buttons - Add Isolated Network, Add Guest Network and Add GloboNetwork Network. A possible fix is to create a select box in the form for creating new networks to choose which kind of network to create.

• Cloudstack does not allow regular users to delete networks. Since GloboNetwork plugin adds this functionality, it was needed to create a new API command (deleteNetworkInGloboNetworkCmd) to execute this action as admin. This is a work-around and should be addressed more carefully in Cloudstack permission checks to allow users to remove networks if it is managed by GloboNetworkGuru.

Use cases

Enable plugin in Zone

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