[openstack-dev] [Neutron][NFV] NFV BoF at design summit

Balaji.P at freescale.com Balaji.P at freescale.com
Tue May 20 03:45:56 UTC 2014



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Mestery [mailto:mestery at noironetworks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][NFV] NFV BoF at design summit
> 
> 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.
[P Balaji-B37839] I agree with Kyle, so that we will have enough synch between Service VM and NFV goals.

Regards,
Balaji.P
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyle
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/ServiceVM
> 
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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