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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Ian Wells <ijw.ubuntu at cack.org.uk> wrote:
> I think the Service VM discussion resolved itself in a way that reduces the
> problem to a form of NFV - there are standing issues using VMs for services,
> orchestration is probably not a responsibility that lies in Neutron, and as
> such the importance is in identifying the problems with the plumbing
> features of Neutron that cause implementation difficulties.  The end result
> will be that VMs implementing tenant services and implementing NFV should be
> much the same, with the addition of offering a multitenant interface to
> Openstack users on the tenant service VM case.
>
> Geoff Arnold is dealing with the collating of information from people that
> have made the attempt to implement service VMs.  The problem areas should
> fall out of his effort.  I also suspect that the key points of NFV that
> cause problems (for instance, dealing with VLANs and trunking) will actually
> appear quite high up the service VM list as well.
> --
There is a weekly meeting for the Service VM project [1], I hope some
representatives from the NFB sub-project can make it to this meeting
and participate there.

Thanks,
Kyle

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ServiceVM

> Ian.
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> On 18 May 2014 20:01, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Sumit Naiksatam" <sumitnaiksatam at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > Thanks for initiating this conversation. Unfortunately I was not able
>> > to participate during the summit on account of overlapping sessions.
>> > As has been identified in the wiki and etherpad, there seem to be
>> > obvious/potential touch points with the advanced services' discussion
>> > we are having in Neutron [1]. Our sub team, and I, will track and
>> > participate in this NFV discussion. Needless to say, we are definitely
>> > very keen to understand and accommodate the NFV requirements.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > ~Sumit.
>> > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/AdvancedServices
>>
>> Yes, there are definitely touch points across a number of different
>> existing projects and sub teams. The consensus seemed to be that while a lot
>> of people in the community have been working in independent groups on
>> advancing the support for NFV use cases in OpenStack we haven't necessarily
>> been coordinating our efforts effectively. Hopefully having a cross-project
>> sub team will allow us to do this.
>>
>> In the BoF sessions we started adding relevant *existing* blueprints on
>> the wiki page, we probably need to come up with a more robust way to track
>> these from launchpad :). Further proposals will no doubt need to be built
>> out from use cases as we discuss them further:
>>
>>     https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/NFV
>>
>> Feel free to add any blueprints from the Advanced Services efforts that
>> were missed!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
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