Hi,<div><br></div><div>The Quantum Admin Guide indicates that you can choose to combine all services onto a single node, or have separate nodes: <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/services.html">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/services.html</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>I will update the text to indicate that that the main reason to use a dedicated network gateway node is if you plan on having VMs send substantial amounts of traffic through that node, and thus would not want that CPU usage to conflict with other openstack services running on your controller node.</div>

<div><br></div><div>dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Skible OpenStack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skible.openstack@gmail.com" target="_blank">skible.openstack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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    <div>Can someone please enlighten us about
      the goods of having a separated network node ?<br>
      I honestly work in production envirnoments (over 30 nodes) and i
      really give computing resources more credit than networking ones !
      <br>
      <br>
      Am i doing it the wrong way here ? <br>
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      Le 08/11/2012 18:49, balaji patnala a écrit :<br>
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      <div>Hi Openers,</div>
      <div> </div>
      <div>One doubt i have is like, as we see in the demo setup in the
        Quantum Admin guide available in <a href="http://openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack.org</a>, we have Network
        Node as a seperate physical node connected to Controller Node
        and Compute Node.</div>
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      <div>But i see that the openstack community who is actively using
        Folsom is not discussing more on this kind of setup.</div>
      <div> </div>
      <div>Not sure if iam missing any key information on this like that
        the Network Node setup may not be widely used in current
        deployment scenarios or it is too early to use Network Node as a
        seperate physical host for openstack.</div>
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      <div>Open comments on this will be more helpful for openstack
        community to understand better on the features of folsom.</div>
      <div> </div>
      <div>regards,</div>
      <div>balaji</div>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Skible
        OpenStack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skible.openstack@gmail.com" target="_blank">skible.openstack@gmail.com</a>></span>
        wrote:<br>
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            <div><a href="https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst" target="_blank">OpenStack Folsom install guide</a> <br>
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              You will find what you want and even more ;)<br>
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              Le 08/11/2012 14:30, Veera Reddy a écrit :<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">Hi Skible,
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                  <div>Can you please send me below configuration files
                    of three setups you have mentioned.</div>
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                    <ul>
                      <li>ovs_quantum_plugin.ini (For controller and
                        node)</li>
                      <li>nova.conf (For controller and node)</li>
                    </ul>
                    <div>Thanks in advance</div>
                    <div><br>
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                    <div>Regards,</div>
                    <div>Veera.<br>
                      <br>
                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at
                        2:57 PM, Skible OpenStack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skible.openstack@gmail.com" target="_blank">skible.openstack@gmail.com</a>></span>
                        wrote:<br>
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                          <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Hello
                            Stackers !<br>
                            <br>
                            I am currently trying to create pictures of
                            my OpenStack deployment architecture as a
                            part of my <a href="https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst" target="_blank">OpenStack Folsom install
                              guide</a> and i would like to ask a
                            favorite.<br>
                            <br>
                            Could you be kind and please take a look at
                            these Pics below and report back if there is
                            a missing or wrong thing.<br>
                            <br>
                            Thank you.<br>
                            <br>
                            <br>
                            ==========Quantum  on VLAN + 3 NICs on
                            controller node============<br>
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                            <br>
                            ==========Quantum  on VLAN + 2 NICs on
                            controller node============<br>
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===================================================<br>
                            <br>
                            ==========Quantum  on GRE-tunneling + 3 NICs
                            on controller node=======<br>
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===================================================<br>
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                            To make of OpenStack, the IT project of the
                            century<br>
                            <br>
                            Best regards<br>
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