[openstack-dev] [Baremetal][Neutron] SDN Solution for Openstack Baremetal Driver

Tim Chim fschim at gmail.com
Wed May 28 15:54:29 UTC 2014


Ryota,

Thanks for your invitation. Unfortunately I did not join the summit. Wish
you had a good time and enjoy the summit ;). However I am really interested
in your baremetal + SDN solution. Would you mind elaborate a bit more about
the architecture and design of the solution?

Regards,
Tim

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Tim Chim <fschim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi fellow stacker,
>
> I am designing for a Baremetal stack with SDN support recently and would
> like to seek for the help from you all for how to do so.
>
> I am building an automated testing framework on top of Openstack Havana.
> For performance and platform sake I would need to provision my stack using
> baremetal driver (Not Ironic). But on the other hand I also need the
> network virtualization provided by neutron in order to maximize resource
> utilization. Therefore I started looking for SDN solutions for the
> baremetal use case. My network infrastructure is from Cisco and so I
> started with Cisco plugin within Neutron.
>
> According to [1], I found that the plugin pretty much supported all
> functionality for the virtualized VM case (i.e. dynamical VLAN creation and
> VLAN tag propagation from controller to compute host). But for baremetal
> case, it seems that the solution would not work as there is no OVS agent
> running on the BM node.
>
> Since information about baremetal + SDN is quit lacking so I wonder if
> anybody here has tried baremetal + SDN before and could share with me your
> experience in doing so? Or it is simply impossible to do SDN with baremetal
> driver? And how about the case for Ironic? Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> Reference:
> [1] -
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-3000-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-727737.html
>
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