I understand Service Offerings for CPU/RAM, but what exactly is a Network Offering?

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A Network Offering defines the networking services available to a CloudStack network.

Depending on the configuration, it can specify services such as:

  • DHCP

  • DNS

  • Source NAT

  • Static NAT

  • Port Forwarding

  • Firewall

  • Load Balancing

  • VPN

So the distinction is:



Service Offering
→ CPU / RAM / bandwidth characteristics

Disk Offering
→ Storage characteristics

Network Offering
→ Network services

This becomes particularly important when troubleshooting why a particular network service isn’t available.