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| <section id="network-offerings"> |
| <title>Network Offerings</title> |
| <note> |
| <para>For the most up-to-date list of supported network services, see the &PRODUCT; UI or call |
| listNetworkServices.</para> |
| </note> |
| <para>A network offering is a named set of network services, such as:</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>DHCP</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>DNS</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Source NAT</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Static NAT</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Port Forwarding</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Load Balancing</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Firewall</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>VPN</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>(Optional) Name one of several available providers to use for a given service, such as |
| Juniper for the firewall</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>(Optional) Network tag to specify which physical network to use</para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| <para>When creating a new VM, the user chooses one of the available network offerings, and that |
| determines which network services the VM can use.</para> |
| <para>The &PRODUCT; administrator can create any number of custom network offerings, in addition |
| to the default network offerings provided by &PRODUCT;. By creating multiple custom network |
| offerings, you can set up your cloud to offer different classes of service on a single |
| multi-tenant physical network. For example, while the underlying physical wiring may be the same |
| for two tenants, tenant A may only need simple firewall protection for their website, while |
| tenant B may be running a web server farm and require a scalable firewall solution, load |
| balancing solution, and alternate networks for accessing the database backend.</para> |
| <note> |
| <para>If you create load balancing rules while using a network service offering that includes an |
| external load balancer device such as NetScaler, and later change the network service offering |
| to one that uses the &PRODUCT; virtual router, you must create a firewall rule on the virtual |
| router for each of your existing load balancing rules so that they continue to |
| function.</para> |
| </note> |
| <para>When creating a new virtual network, the &PRODUCT; administrator chooses which network |
| offering to enable for that network. Each virtual network is associated with one network |
| offering. A virtual network can be upgraded or downgraded by changing its associated network |
| offering. If you do this, be sure to reprogram the physical network to match.</para> |
| <para>&PRODUCT; also has internal network offerings for use by &PRODUCT; system VMs. These network |
| offerings are not visible to users but can be modified by administrators.</para> |
| <xi:include href="creating-network-offerings.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> |
| </section> |