[ovs-discuss] Simple Open vSwitch Testing framework

2010-05-21 Thread Todd Deshane
Hi All, I wrote a set of scripts [1] to do some basic benchmarking of Open vSwitch to be able to compare its performance to standard bridging. So far it only has support for KVM, netpipe, and a little bit of support for iperf. It works for what I need to test. It has enough support to re-create

Re: [ovs-discuss] Problem with OpenVswitch 1.0.0 database backend and persistent settings.

2010-05-21 Thread Dan Wendlandt
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Mark Persohn < mark.pers...@superchoice.com.au> wrote: > > I have looked at trying to run a script as prt of the VM startup but since > we are running libvirtd/qemu in bridge > mode it will not run scripts! I do not have any hands-on experience with libvirt and K

Re: [ovs-discuss] Re : OvS 1.0.0 Compile error on fedora 13

2010-05-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:08:43AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > Good luck. Let us know if you get really stuck. The DB takes a > little while to get used to, but I think you will find it more > flexible. I use "ovs-vsctl list " a lot to get an > understanding of how things are actually set up.

Re: [ovs-discuss] Re : Re : Re : OvS 1.0.0 Compile error on fedora 13

2010-05-21 Thread Peter Phaal
Another factor to consider as you look at your networking options is visibility into network traffic. The Open vSwitch includes embedded traffic monitoring and would give you visibility into all traffic between VMs and from VMs to the outside world: http://blog.sflow.com/2010/05/configuring-ope

[ovs-discuss] Re : Re : Re : OvS 1.0.0 Compile error on fedora 13

2010-05-21 Thread DarkBls
I would be glad to. Here is want we are trying to do : We have several blade center with 14 blade (servers) on each one. We use fedora / centos with KVM on each blades. Each blade ( 2 x 4 core) can host up to 24 VM. So with 3 full bladecenter (BC) we would have something like a thousand VM. We

[ovs-discuss] Re : Re : OvS 1.0.0 Compile error on fedora 13

2010-05-21 Thread DarkBls
I will keep you informed for sure. I'm working for a big project (several hundred of VM to manage ) and I need something robust, felxible and fast for network virtualisation. - Message d'origine De : Justin Pettit À : DarkBls Cc : Ben Pfaff ; discuss@openvswitch.org Envoyé le : Ven

Re: [ovs-discuss] Re : OvS 1.0.0 Compile error on fedora 13

2010-05-21 Thread Justin Pettit
On May 20, 2010, at 11:56 PM, DarkBls wrote: > I confirme it compiles with > Great. I pushed the fix earlier today, so it will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for reporting it. > Just have now to understand how to tackle the rest of configuration trap :D > (DB creation, GRE switch vir