Virtualization And IPv6 : Part Of IPv6 Address For Virtual Hosts

["Arul Kumar Chellappan" <arulkumar.chellappan at gmail.com>]

Dear All,

 

With virtualization gaining momentum, would there be an option in IPv6 where it has a mechanism to address a virtual host from the real world.  Like the 128bit IPv6 address having [Network Prefix][Host ID][Virtual host ID].  For the backward compatibility, the host part could be subdivided into real host ID and the virtual host ID and range of virtual host IDs could represent a single real node.

 

Yes, I understand about the major implementations now have no provitions for that but multicast addressed like ALL_VIRTUAL_NODE_ON_THIS_REAL_NODE that would help in easy management of that device.

 

This is just my initial thought, with limited understanding on virtualization and IPv6.  Could you please let me know your thoughts on this.

 

Regards,

Arul Kumar C

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