<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p id="yui_3_5_1_1_1359154343797_1497" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Arial">Hi Folks,</font></p><p id="yui_3_5_1_1_1359154343797_1497" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">We (Arista Networks) have submitted a new blueprint today which adds Quantum/OVSPlugin support for hardware switches.</font></p><p id="yui_3_5_1_1_1359154343797_1497" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Arial">This blueprint describes a generic python API within the OVS quantum plugin which will enable support for different hardware backends for L2 network segregation (VLANs, tunneling, etc.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Arial">This may be useful for existing data centers with hardware switches which needs to be used along with Openstack infrastructure. In this case a hardware vendor may introduce the OVS plugin extension/driver which will allow using the vendor's hardware within Openstack along with Open vSwitch virtual switches to provide L2 network segregation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Arial">This will allow automatic L2 network provisioning on the hardware devices alongside with the Open vSwitch provisioning in the compute node hypervisors.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font face="Arial">We have implemented and successfully tested the API proposed in this blueprint and are providing the source code for an Arista Driver which supports provisioning of Arista TOR (top-of-the-rack) switches alongside with open vswitches. This driver will support the python API proposed in this blueprint to interact with the OVS quantum plugin.<br></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">The blueprint is available at:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovsplugin-hardware-devices">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovsplugin-hardware-devices</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">We will be submitting the code for review at <a href="https://review.openstack.org">https://review.openstack.org</a> soon, and would love to be considered for inclusion into the Quantum/Grizzly release. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">Appreciate your comments and feedback on the same.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">Regards,</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Satish Mohan</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; width: auto; max-width: 45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><font face="Arial">Arista Networks</font></p></body></html>