On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Kyle Mestery <mest...@mestery.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Assaf Muller <as...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:28:31AM -0700, rezroo wrote: >>>> I'm trying to reconcile differences and similarities between OVN and >>>> OpenDayLight in my head. Can someone help me compare these two technologies >>>> and explain if they solve the same problem, or if there are fundamental >>>> differences between them? >>> >>> OVN implements network virtualization for clouds of VMs or containers or >>> a mix. Open Daylight is a platform for managing networks that can do >>> anything you want. >> >> That is true, but when considering a Neutron backend for OpenStack >> deployments, people choose a subset of OpenDaylight projects and the >> end result is a solution that is comparable in scope and feature set. >> There are objective differences in where the projects are in their >> lifetime, the HA architecture, the project's consistency model between >> the neutron-server process and the backend, the development velocity, >> the community size and the release model. >> > Fundamentally, the main difference is that OVN does one thing: It does > network virtualization. OpenDaylight _MAY_ do network virtualization, > among other things, and it likely does network virtualization in many > different ways. Like Ben said: > > "Open Daylight is a platform for managing networks that can do > anything you want."
I agree, but I don't think that was what was asked or makes for an interesting discussion. I think the obvious comparison is OVN to ML2/ODL using the ovsdb ODL project. > > Thanks, > Kyle > >>> >>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>> Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
