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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mellanox Technologies, in our support of Openstack, is releasing the Mellanox Quantum Plugin. This is following our previous announcement of Cinder Transport Acceleration via iSER (iSCSI over RDMA).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The Openstack Mellanox Quantum plugin supports Mellanox embedded switch (eSwitch) functionality as part of the VPI (Ethernet/InfiniBand) network adapter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The Mellanox Quantum Plugin allows hardware vNICs (mapped to PCI SR-IOV Virtual Functions) per each Virtual Machine vNIC to have its unique connectivity, security, and QoS attributes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hardware vNICs can be mapped to the guest VMs through para-virtualization or directly as a Virtual PCI device to the guest, allowing higher performance and advanced features such as RDMA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hardware based switching, provides better performance, functionality, and security/isolation for virtual cloud environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The current, initial release, of the plugin supports VLAN and Flat networking. The plugin supports ‘provider’ and ‘router’ extension.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The plugin is implemented according to the Plugin-Agent pattern.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The plugin supports L3 functionality by maintaining compatibility with the Linux Bridge plugin to be executed by existing agents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nova Vif driver is included.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The plugin L2 Agent should be executed on the nodes equipped with Mellanox ConnectX-2 or ConnectX-3 adapters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mellanox Quantum Plugin repository:
<a href="http://www.github.com/mellanox/mlnx">http://www.github.com/mellanox/mlnx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mellanox Quantum Plugin overview and configuration options:
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/mellanox/mlnx/blob/master/README">https://github.com/mellanox/mlnx/blob/master/README</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">A detailed installation guide:
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://github.com/mellanox/mlnx/blob/master/install_guide">https://github.com/mellanox/mlnx/blob/master/install_guide</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The current version works with Folsom Release. We are working on support for Grizzly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Future version of the plugin will support IB networking, ‘port-binding’ extension and more advanced features as support for OpenFlow API to control granular QoS and Security, and monitor the embedded
switch and vNICs functionality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Any comments or suggestions are more than welcome.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">We will be glad to assist anyone who would like to review or test. Contact me or use
<a href="mailto:openstack@mellanox.com">openstack@mellanox.com</a> for support/tech questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Irena & Mellanox Openstack Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mellanox Technologies Ltd.<br>
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