Re: [Openstack] Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-04 Thread Eric Day
Having been a mentor before for other projects, I strongly agree that we should do this. It's a great way to get more folks involved in the project. -Eric On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:37:18PM -0600, Stephen Spector wrote: >OpenStack Developers: >Now that you have a few days off (just kiddin

[Openstack] Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-04 Thread Stephen Spector
OpenStack Developers: Now that you have a few days off (just kidding) to relax from the release of Bexar, I wanted to bring up a new topic for your consideration. The Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) will take applications from open source communities starting Feb 28 - March

Re: [Openstack] Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-04 Thread Dan Wendlandt
Salvatore is right here. The key point is that the limits of standard L2 + VLANs aren't just about the number of bits in the VLAN tag: even if you buy gear that supports more VLANs in hardware (including Q-in-Q), more important are the issues with broadcast scalability, MAC table size, inability t

Re: [Openstack] Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-04 Thread Salvatore Orlando
Hi, I agree with Aimon and Patrick that a VLAN per customer would be a good fit only for small deployments. Moreover, if I'm not wrong, datacentres are typically organized in small layer-2 PoD in the Access layer interconnected by L3 routers (I'm referring to the Cisco Data Center Infrastruct