[JCLOUDS-270] softlayer: Expose port-speed in template. Set default to 100Mbps.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Labels: softlayer
• Environment: api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Toy
• Created: 06/Sep/13 17:28
• Updated: 24/Jan/15 11:33

Description

Currently jclouds:softlayer does not expose virtualguest.port-speed to the template builder.
Adding this would make SoftLayer easier to use.

Additionally: the default template[1] in jclouds:softlayer specifies the new instances are created with a 10Mbps public and private port.

There is no price difference between 10Mbps and 100Mbps ports[2][3] (both free, 1G ports not free), so 100Mbps would be a better default value.

1. https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/providers/softlayer/src/main/java/org/jclouds/softlayer/SoftLayerProviderMetadata.java#L69
2. http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer/build-your-own-cloud
3. https://manage.softlayer.com/Sales/orderHourlyComputingInstance