late to the party... but I'll dabble. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> wrote: > * rob_hirschf...@dell.com (rob_hirschf...@dell.com) wrote: >> We've been discussing using Open vSwitch as the basis for non-Quantum Nova >> Networking deployments in Folsom. While not Quantum, it feels like we're >> bringing Nova Networking a step closer to some of the core technologies that >> Quantum uses. > > To what end?
OVS provides much more robust monitoring and operational facilities (e.g sFlow monitoring, better switch table visibility etc). It also provides a linux-bridge compatibility layer (ovs-brcompatd [1]), which should work out-of-box with the linux-bridge. As such, switching to using OVS rather than the linux bridge could be done without any code changes to nova, just deployment changes (e.g. ensure that ovs-brcompatd is running to intercept brctl ioctl's - [2]). For the more adventurous, there could be any number of interesting scenarios enabled by having access to ovs capabilities (e.g. tunneling) > >> I'm interested in hearing what other's in the community think about this >> approach. > I'm similarly curious if any *operators* have experimented with OVS and sFlow or other of its capabilities. [1] http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD [2] http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/ovsman.cgi?page=vswitchd%2Fovs-brcompatd.8.in > I don't think legacy nova networking should get features while working to > stabilize and improve quantum and nova/quantum integration. > > thanks, > -chris > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
