DHCP server issues in cloud data center environment

[Steven Carr]

On 5 March 2014 07:12, Liang LR Rong <jet.rongl at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> The requirement is that to save TCO, we should provision one DHCP server
> (running a single DHCPd instance) to service many tenants. But, the IP
> address spaces are likely to be overlapped for those tenants. So, the point
> is that is there any solution or workaround to make the ISC DHCP server to
> allocate IP address for each tenant separately and these IP address are
> overlapped when look from the overall address pool?

No. You would need a DHCP instance per overlapping address-space.
DHCPd can only operate on a single address-space.
And you should also look at deploying multiple DHCP servers utilizing
DHCP failover for resilience.

Steve