[Openstack-operators] [openstack-operators] Neutron HA

Jacob Godin jacobgodin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 11:54:43 UTC 2013


Not specifically to Neutron HA, but a great video none the less:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9mPepfxm-4


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Roman Podolyaka
<rpodolyaka at mirantis.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks, Akihiro and Simon! I didn't know we had such option.
>
> >> Regarding 1, the configuration option "dhcp_agents_per_network" is
> introduced. This options specifies the number of DHCP agents scheduled to
> host a network.
> >> If you set this option to the number of dhcp agents, you can do this.
>
> >> It already exists in Havana by setting the dhcp_agents_per_network
> parameter in neutron.conf .
> >> Check this commit for details:
> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/c95e58b70796eae6bbc8bac283f81df9aa1d1894
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Simon Pasquier <simon.pasquier at bull.net>wrote:
>
>>  Le 19/07/2013 15:07, Roman Podolyaka a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Jacob, all
>>
>>  1. When a new Neutron network is created, it is automatically scheduled
>> to one of DHCP-agents running in a cluster (actually, it's done lazily,
>> when the first port on this network is created, but that's an
>> implementation detail). Though, you have to manually schedule it to
>> additional DHCP-agents to provide HA. I haven't seen any BPs adding such an
>> option, but I agree, that it would be useful to have one.
>>
>>
>> It already exists in Havana by setting the dhcp_agents_per_network
>> parameter in neutron.conf .
>> Check this commit for details:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/commit/c95e58b70796eae6bbc8bac283f81df9aa1d1894
>>
>>
>>  2. Not sure we have one :( The solution from TelekomCloud guys seems to
>> be the only way to go to provide HA for L3 agents in Active/Active mode
>> currently.
>>
>>  3. Every network or compute node in a cluster runs an L2-agent, which
>> allows one to create L2 tenant networks and plug VMs/routers/DHCP-servers
>> into network ports (the underlying implementation depends on the core
>> plugin you use, e.g. OVS can use VLANs or GRE tunnels to provide tenant
>> isolation). So L2 networking is ready to use when you've started an
>> L2-agent and provided it with a correct configuration file.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Roman
>>
>>
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