<div dir="ltr">At Symantec's Cloud Platform Engineering, we have deployed OpenStack+OpenContrail at a fairly large scale. I can't give you exact numbers, but you can get some data points from our SDN evaluation presentation in the Atlanta summit: <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/session-videos/presentation/software-defined-networking-performance-and-architecture-evaluation">https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/session-videos/presentation/software-defined-networking-performance-and-architecture-evaluation</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Raghu Vadapalli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rvatspacket@gmail.com" target="_blank">rvatspacket@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>On 09/29/2014 01:52 PM, Tim Bell wrote:<br>
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            there any references for people running OpenContrail at
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    Though reference are good to have, in general, L3 networks are known
    to scale better than L2 networks. <br>
    Having said that, the complexity of two large frameworks  OpenStack
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    deployment is not known to me. Any ideas ?<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> NAPIERALA, MARIA H
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                  <b>Sent:</b> 29 September 2014 19:26<br>
                  <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dennisml@conversis.de" target="_blank">dennisml@conversis.de</a><br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons
                  Open vSwitch ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>> What are the alternatives though? As far
                as I know the regular linux<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>> bridge lacks most of the features of OVS
                and these are the only to<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>> options I've played with so far. Is the
                a third alternative out there<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>> that they've switched to?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>One alternative is OpenContrail vRouter as
                ML3 plugin. It meets the scale and feature requirements.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Maria<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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