<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ryota,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Tim Chim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fschim@gmail.com" target="_blank">fschim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi fellow stacker,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div>Reference:</div><div>[1] - <a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-3000-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-727737.html" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-3000-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-727737.html</a></div>
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