On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Ian Wells <ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk> wrote: > I think the Service VM discussion resolved itself in a way that reduces the > problem to a form of NFV - there are standing issues using VMs for services, > orchestration is probably not a responsibility that lies in Neutron, and as > such the importance is in identifying the problems with the plumbing > features of Neutron that cause implementation difficulties. The end result > will be that VMs implementing tenant services and implementing NFV should be > much the same, with the addition of offering a multitenant interface to > Openstack users on the tenant service VM case. > > Geoff Arnold is dealing with the collating of information from people that > have made the attempt to implement service VMs. The problem areas should > fall out of his effort. I also suspect that the key points of NFV that > cause problems (for instance, dealing with VLANs and trunking) will actually > appear quite high up the service VM list as well. > -- There is a weekly meeting for the Service VM project [1], I hope some representatives from the NFB sub-project can make it to this meeting and participate there.
Thanks, Kyle [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ServiceVM > Ian. > > > > On 18 May 2014 20:01, Steve Gordon <sgor...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Sumit Naiksatam" <sumitnaiksa...@gmail.com> >> > >> > Thanks for initiating this conversation. Unfortunately I was not able >> > to participate during the summit on account of overlapping sessions. >> > As has been identified in the wiki and etherpad, there seem to be >> > obvious/potential touch points with the advanced services' discussion >> > we are having in Neutron [1]. Our sub team, and I, will track and >> > participate in this NFV discussion. Needless to say, we are definitely >> > very keen to understand and accommodate the NFV requirements. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > ~Sumit. >> > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/AdvancedServices >> >> Yes, there are definitely touch points across a number of different >> existing projects and sub teams. The consensus seemed to be that while a lot >> of people in the community have been working in independent groups on >> advancing the support for NFV use cases in OpenStack we haven't necessarily >> been coordinating our efforts effectively. Hopefully having a cross-project >> sub team will allow us to do this. >> >> In the BoF sessions we started adding relevant *existing* blueprints on >> the wiki page, we probably need to come up with a more robust way to track >> these from launchpad :). Further proposals will no doubt need to be built >> out from use cases as we discuss them further: >> >> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NFV >> >> Feel free to add any blueprints from the Advanced Services efforts that >> were missed! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev