[qeeens][neutron] migrating from iptables_hybrid to openvswitch

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 18:09:30 UTC 2020


James, I checked again with your method. While live migration phase, the
informations on neutron db are changed automatically and returns with
"system", "ovs_hybrid_plug": True} ......
This is because the instance migrated has got interface under qbr.
Ignazio

Il giorno gio 12 mar 2020 alle ore 13:30 James Denton <
james.denton at rackspace.com> ha scritto:

> Hi Ignazio,
>
>
>
> I  tested a process that converted iptables_hybrid to openvswitch
> in-place, but not without a hard reboot of the VM and some massaging of the
> existing bridges/veths. Since you are live-migrating, though, you might be
> able to get around that.
>
>
>
> Regardless, to make this work, I had to update the port’s vif_details in
> the Neutron DB and set ‘ovs_hybrid_plug’ to false. Something like this:
>
>
>
> > use neutron;
>
> > update ml2_port_bindings set vif_details='{"port_filter": true,
> "bridge_name": "br-int", "datapath_type": "system", "ovs_hybrid_plug":
> false}' where port_id='3d88982a-6b39-4f7e-8772-69367c442939' limit 1;
>
>
>
> So, perhaps making that change prior to moving the VM back to the other
> compute node will do the trick.
>
>
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> James
>
>
>
> *From: *Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 6:41 AM
> *To: *openstack-discuss <openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org>
> *Subject: *[qeeens][neutron] migrating from iptables_hybrid to openvswitch
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> Hello All, I am facing some problems migrating from iptables_hybrid
> frirewall to openvswitch firewall on centos 7 queens,
>
> I am doing this because I want enable security groups logs which require
> openvswitch firewall.
>
> I would like to migrate without restarting my instances.
>
> I startded moving all instances from compute node 1.
>
> Then I configured openvswitch firewall on compute node 1,
>
> Instances migrated from compute node 2 to compute node 1 without problems.
>
> Once the compute node 2 was empty, I migrated it to openvswitch.
>
> But now instances does not migrate from node 1 to node 2 because it
> requires the presence of qbr bridge on node 2
>
>
>
> This happened because migrating instances from node2 with iptables_hybrid
> to compute node 1 with openvswitch, does not put the tap under br-int as
> requested by  openvswich firewall, but qbr is still present on compute node
> 1.
>
> Once I enabled openvswitch on compute node 2, migration from compute node
> 1 fails because it exprects qbr on compute node 2 .
>
> So I think I should moving on the fly tap interfaces from qbr to br-int on
> compute node 1 before migrating to compute node 2 but it is a huge work on
> a lot of instances.
>
>
>
> Any workaround, please ?
>
>
>
> Ignazio
>
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