No it's not needed, you just run quantum-server, the L3 agent, the DHCP agent, and the plugin agent (probably open vSwitch) all on the controller. You'll just need to plan out which NICs you'll use for what purpose and setup accordingly.
As a side note, you'll also need to run the plugin agent on all your compute nodes On Mar 9, 2013 4:57 PM, "JR" <botem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > > Next week I'll be putting up a new folsom cluster (perhaps using these > instructions: > https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide). > Presently, I don't have a box to devote to being a network node. Is it > necessary? The clouds I've put up so far have just had controller and > compute nodes? Is the network node required by quantum? > > Thanks much, > JR > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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