Re: [ovs-discuss] Bootstrapping OVS (network config before openvswitch db is up)

2013-05-15 Thread Nick
Thanks so much! It looks like this is going to be easier than I at first suspected. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:07:46PM -0700, Nick wrote: > > Ok that sounds better. So would it be best to use the same eth0 (or > > whatever the physical interf

Re: [ovs-discuss] Bootstrapping OVS (network config before openvswitch db is up)

2013-05-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:07:46PM -0700, Nick wrote: > Ok that sounds better. So would it be best to use the same eth0 (or > whatever the physical interface name is) as the untagged network management > device, or should I somehow create a virtual interface via OVS? This is a FAQ. Q: I created

Re: [ovs-discuss] Bootstrapping OVS (network config before openvswitch db is up)

2013-05-14 Thread Nick
Ok that sounds better. So would it be best to use the same eth0 (or whatever the physical interface name is) as the untagged network management device, or should I somehow create a virtual interface via OVS? Also, if I: 1. Start the database server with an empty database 2. Start ovs-vswitchd 3.

Re: [ovs-discuss] Bootstrapping OVS (network config before openvswitch db is up)

2013-05-14 Thread Jesse Gross
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Nick wrote: > 5. Start ovsdb-server on one node (on a floating IP which would be an alias > on eth0.mgmt), with a persistent storage data directory. If this server > dies it will be automatically master elected (using our internal automation > framework) on anoth

[ovs-discuss] Bootstrapping OVS (network config before openvswitch db is up)

2013-05-13 Thread Nick
I'm working on a large-scale netbooted cluster configuration, which has it's persistent data stored on a clustering filesystem for redundancy. There is only one physical network link, where the untagged vlan is used for management/filesystem replication, and tagged vlans are used for other things.