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Feature request: Include virtualization devices in topology map

Open petersipos opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Hello!

That is possible to show virtualized devices in the topology map? In netbox we could assign the same device roles (firewall, access switch, virtual server, server) to the virtual machines like the phisical devices, but they aren't included in the topology map yet.

Thanks, Peter

petersipos avatar Feb 02 '21 09:02 petersipos

I too would really benefit from this feature. Cheers! 🍻

sscotter avatar Aug 05 '21 12:08 sscotter

I'd be really interested in this as well!

tacerus avatar May 25 '22 16:05 tacerus

I'd be really interested in this as well!

focheur91300 avatar Sep 16 '22 08:09 focheur91300

Please put more effort in your proposal. How exactly would you like to be this feature implemented? It may help to provide mockups either.

The problem here is, that we display physical connections. In your case, the current implementation shows cables between the virtualisation host to e.g. a physical switch. What would you suggest about how the VMs, virtual connections and virtual switches should be represented without confusion with physical connections?

dreng avatar Jan 07 '23 13:01 dreng

After reading and tinkering a bit I sadly have to say that the implementation of this feature is not possible. The reason is NetBox itself, because virtual cables and connections between virtual devices are not implemented right now and there are currently no plans to do so. See https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/2797

We are not able to display any connections if they don't exist in NetBox. Therefore I close this FR.

dreng avatar Jan 27 '23 18:01 dreng

Displaying connected/hosted VMs would also be a nice addition, while you're in here. Currently, there's no way to make VMs visible, regardless of their role. You only see "baremetal" devices. It's missing a pretty significant gap for netbox, given that everything is moving to containers and VMs these days.

desrod avatar Apr 30 '23 21:04 desrod

@desrod Did you read my last comment? If you like to have such a feature, please make a feature request upstream and convince the netbox team in modeling VM networking. Without that, displaying just VM icons in a topology map is completely useless. Besides, please open a new feature request if you'd like to make one. Don't hijack closed FRs for new FRs.

dreng avatar May 01 '23 04:05 dreng