Thanks Satish,<div><br></div><div>Modifying the subject-line, as most people filter this ML pretty heavily out of necessity :) <br><div><br></div><div>Assuming this is inline with what we chatted about in the past, I think this will be a great addition. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll make sure people are aware of this during the meeting today, and hopefully we get get some people to refer the design soon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Satish Mohan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satish@aristanetworks.com" target="_blank">satish@aristanetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px">
<font face="Arial">Hi Folks,</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><font face="Arial">We (Arista Networks) have submitted a new blueprint today which adds Quantum/OVSPlugin support for hardware switches.</font></p>
<p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><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="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><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="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><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="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><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="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><font face="Arial">The blueprint is available at:</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px">
<a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovsplugin-hardware-devices" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovsplugin-hardware-devices</a></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px">
<font face="Arial">We will be submitting the code for review at <a href="https://review.openstack.org" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org</a> soon, and would love to be considered for inclusion into the Quantum/Grizzly release. </font></p>
<p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><font face="Arial">Appreciate your comments and feedback on the same.</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px">
<font face="Arial">Regards,</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial">Satish Mohan</span></p><p style="line-height:18px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:45em;width:auto;margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px">
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