Hi Dan,
We have been running the RHEL 6.1 Beta, but since it's Beta, I was not sure that we want to mention that version number. On the FlatManager configuration, the following can be added as a not in either in 4.1 or 4.5: " In cases where one wants to configure the network by making API calls explicitly to Quantum before bringing up the VM, it is also possible to use Nova's FlatManager instead of QuantumManager. The following configuration would need to be specified in the nova.conf file: --network_manager=nova.network.manager.FlatManager --flat_network_bridge=br100 --fixed_range=192.168.0.0/16 You will need to provide the bridge name since the FlatManager configuration requires it, however you do not need to create that bridge and it will not be used. As mentioned in the OpenStack documentation, in the Flat Mode, the IP addresses for VM instances are grabbed from the subnet, and then injected into the image on launch. Each instance receives a fixed IP address from the pool of available addresses. The configuration injection currently only works on Linux-style systems that keep networking configuration in /etc/network/interfaces. " Thanks, ~Sumit. From: Dan Wendlandt [mailto:d...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:06 AM To: Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) Cc: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out! Thanks Sumit, great feedback. Most comments I just applied, but I had a couple questions/comments below. Dan On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat) <snaik...@cisco.com> wrote: Page 4, 3.1 - "we recommend that you use a recent version of Ubuntu, as this is a well tested platform" - you can probably qualify this in parentheses by saying that it has been known to work on RHEL. I added a mention of RHEL as well. Are there any specific versions I should call out? A thought on the QuantumManager - I do agree that going forward, the recommended way of getting Nova to work with Quantum should be by configuring the QuantumManager as the network-manager. However, until there are still some pending items left in the QuantumManager, would it make sense to suggest that an option to using the QuantumManager would be to use the FlatManager configuration, and create Quantum network and ports separately? Yeah, that's a good idea. Could you do a quick write-up describing the configuration steps required, since I haven't run things in this mode in quite a while? I think I remember seeing somewhere that they now require the flat_network_bridge flag to be set? Do you run this in a mode where IPs are allocated from a single giant subnet, and thus, any VM can be plugged into any network? It would be good if you could quickly call out the main benefits of this mode compared to QuantumManager so we can help the reader of the docs understand when they would use one mode or the other (it will also be a good guide to what we need to improve with the Quantum manager). Thanks! Thanks, ~Sumit. From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat <mailto:netstack-bounces%2Bsnaiksat> =cisco....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Dan Wendlandt Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:12 PM To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out! Hi folks, I finished a first cut at an "Administrator Guide" for Quantum (attached), aimed at administrators who will be installing and running Quantum. Its pretty simple right now, but is hopefully enough to get folks started playing with Quantum + Nova. It would be great if someone could take a quick look through the document (attached) and see if anything jumps out as obviously wrong or missing. Hopefully we can get at least one other pair of eyes on it tomorrow morning, then we can send an email out to the OpenStack list still on Monday. Right now, the doc does not include any plugin-specific documentation, it just tells the user to look at the plugin documentation (e.g., a README file). To match the docs, the suggested set of topics to cover in plugin documentation are: - any dependencies required by the plugin. - editing required plugin config files, performing other plugin setup. (e.g., installing agents) - validating that the plugin is properly setup - setting the appropriate vif-plugging flags for nova-compute Thanks, Dan p.s. I'll be working with Anne to get her thoughts on where we should host the Quantum docs given the recent changes in where other OpenStack projects are hosting their docs. ________________________________ From: Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com <http://d...@nicira.com> > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:07:32 -0700 To: <netstack@lists.launchpad.net <http://netstack@lists.launchpad.net> > Subject: [Netstack] Quantum 2011.3 Diablo is out! Hi netstack, Its official, the first official Quantum release is available for download: https://launchpad.net/quantum/+milestone/2011.3 Thanks to everyone for final push to get the release tested and out... definitely a team effort. We've come a very long way since the Diablo summit only six short months ago and have a great foundation to build on in order to reach production quality in the Essex timeframe. My plan is to hold off announcing the release to the main OpenStack list until monday, so I can hopefully get a first cut of the Administrator docs over the weekend so users have something to guide them through their first experience with Quantum. Enjoy the weekend and hopefully we'll be able to dive into some doc reviews next week, along with planning for the Essex summit :) Dan ________________________________ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack <https://launchpad.net/%7Enetstack> <https://launchpad.net/%7Enetstack> Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net <http://netstack@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack <https://launchpad.net/%7Enetstack> <https://launchpad.net/%7Enetstack> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Wendlandt Nicira Networks, Inc. www.nicira.com <http://www.nicira.com> | www.openvswitch.org <http://www.openvswitch.org> Sr. Product Manager cell: 650-906-2650 <tel:650-906-2650> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Wendlandt Nicira Networks, Inc. www.nicira.com | www.openvswitch.org Sr. Product Manager cell: 650-906-2650 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Wendlandt Nicira Networks, Inc. www.nicira.com | www.openvswitch.org Sr. Product Manager cell: 650-906-2650 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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