[Engine-devel] Network labeling requirements follow up questions

[Livnat Peer]

On 01/07/2014 11:46 PM, Malini Rao wrote:
> Livnat, 
> 
> I had asked a couple of questions about network labeling reqs offline but wanted to continue the discussion on the list. Thank you for the answers and I have copied my questions and your answers for context -
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> 1. Can a network be part of several labels?
> Currently not, we are not sure if there is a use case for that ATM, but
> I hope users would surprise us with an interesting use case.
> 
> 2. Can a network exist as a available network in the Setup Host networks dialog on its own even if it is part of a label? i.e, can a network be assigned to a NIC on its own and to another NIC as part of a label?
> 
> Network can not be provisioned twice on the same host (regardless of labels).
> 
> With regard to your answer to my question 2, I understand that the network cannot be provisioned twice on the same host but it can be provisioned to multiple hosts... right? 
>
> So, Let's say the Green network is part of a label called label 1 which also includes yellow and red networks, and let's say Host 1 is provisioned using label 1 and so it can use green, yellow and red networks.

> For Host 2, can I provision with just Green rather than with Label 1? 

yes

> Or can a network be used only once in a label and across hosts?

label is just a tool to ease network provisioning on the host, you can
always use 'manual' actions to provision the networks.

Hope that clarifies, I'll be happy to answer more questions if you have any.

Livnat


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> Thanks
> Malini
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