Lars Larsson wrote:
This means, in particular, that I don't think that such additional services as (the configuration of) firewalls, DHCP servers, and the like should be included in the OCCI. If the customer requires these services, they should be implemented by VMs that are deployed on the customer's virtual network.
This is an attractively elegant idea, but in many real clouds the minimum cost of a VM is quite high and thus it would be a waste to use a VM for something like DHCP. Also, if the cloud doesn't support DHCP, how can you create multiple VMs from a single disk image? You can't configure the image with a static IP address because then you'd have multiple VMs with the same address, and you can't configure the image with no address at all because then you wouldn't be able to log in to set the IP address. Wes Felter - http://felter.org/wesley/