Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration: Matrix-to-Matrix, HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud, HP Cloud Services, and Amazon EC2

Appendix A: Provisioning to an Amazon VPC

CloudSystem can provision instances to an Amazon VPC in a manner similar to EC2.

• A VPC must be pre-provisioned, with subnets, gateways, and routing tables configured as necessary. For more information,

see the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud FAQs on the following website:

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/

• A single cloud capacity pool can be used to provision to EC2 or to a specified VPC, but not both. A capacity pool can be

targeted to a VPC instead of an EC2 region by setting, for example, provider.vpc.id=vpc-1a2b3c4d in the EC2

capacity pool configuration.

• Available VPC subnets are represented in the IO subnet inventory using their native subnet ID (for example, subnet-

1a2b3c4d). They must be configured for use in IO by setting a DNS domain and a DHCP address range.

Limitations

Note the following limitations when provisioning to an Amazon VPC. For more information, and for planning, design, and

implementation services, contact HP Technology Services at www.hp.com/services/cloud.

• An instance provisioned to a VPC is not assigned a public IP address and is, therefore, not accessible over the Internet.

• An instance can be provisioned in a VPC with one or two subnet connections. The default security group is used for a second

subnet connection and IO cannot configure or alter it. An external integration might be required to change this security

group setting.

• The first network interface in the IO template must be marked as primary.