[openstack-dev] LogMeIn Avi PF9 engineering touch point

Praveen Yalagandula ypraveen at avinetworks.com
Fri Sep 29 04:30:45 UTC 2017


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Sorry!
Praveen

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:16 PM Praveen Yalagandula <
ypraveen at avinetworks.com> wrote:

> Siva,
> All changes for #1 are not in 17.1.8; there is a pull-request waiting your
> review for last few days.
> Note that the version EBSCO finally tested with was making one neutron API
> call per one pool PATCH API call. Original one was making three neutron API
> calls.
>
> Changes in 17.1.8 only reduce it from 3 to 2 per PATCH API call. The
> pull-request that is to go into 17.1.9 has the changes for reducing it to 1
> neutron API call.
>
> Cheers,
> Praveen
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:39 PM Siva kollipara <siva at avinetworks.com>
> wrote:
>
>> # avi-internal #
>>
>> #1 is part of 17.1.8.
>>
>> @Sambit and Praveen can comment on #2 and #3.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Jason Price <jason at avinetworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe Justin installed 17.1.8 today.  Siva, do we have improvements
>>> in that version?
>>>
>>> Justin reported some initial performance issues (new PF9 with Contrail
>>> 4.0.1), and I saw some slow API calls (~120s to add a vNIC), but he found
>>> some configuration issues with some bad endpoints, etc.  Didn't get
>>> feedback after that, but will check tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Sachin Manpathak <
>>> smanpathak at platform9.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We changed
>>>> 1. Sequence of network query
>>>> 2. Increased timeouts
>>>> In addition, pf9 requests to reduce keystone usage by caching tokens
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Sachin
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 28, 2017, 7:33 PM -0700, Siva kollipara <siva at avinetworks.com>,
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> I am not aware of those changes being applied at LogMeIn, but please
>>>> use Avi 17.1.8.
>>>>
>>>> - Siva
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Jeff Darrish <jdarrish at platform9.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi team,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we have a way to validate if the tweaks to the Avi controller
>>>>> leveraged at EBSCO have also been put in place at LogMeIn?
>>>>> The LogMeIn team is asking which Avi software version they should be
>>>>> running for Platform9 integration -- I would think this would be the
>>>>> patched releases provided to EBSCO--correct? Can we get validation on the
>>>>> specific version that would be best?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> *Jeff Darrish*
>>>>> *Solutions Architect | Platform9 <http://platform9.com>*
>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com
>>>>> (404) 317-8344
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Praveen Yalagandula <
>>>>> ypraveen at avinetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>> Here are the meeting notes from today's discussion. Pushkar, Sachin,
>>>>>> please add if we missed anything.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Attendees:
>>>>>> Platform 9 (P9): Pushkar, Sachin
>>>>>> Avi: Praveen, Siva
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Customer in question:
>>>>>> LogMeIn: Contrail + Platform 9 + Avi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - P9 is in cloud and tunnesl to the services on the hosts in the
>>>>>> customer environment
>>>>>> - Contrail controller in customer's environment
>>>>>> - They are currently creating only one tunnel and now need to reuse
>>>>>> that for two different services -- avi and contrail controller. And they
>>>>>> have a forwarder agent that can dynamically switch between those two
>>>>>> services. However, calls from Heat would fail if the tunnel is already in
>>>>>> use by the neutron plugin. Their ask was to retry on connection errors for
>>>>>> multiple times with some sleep in between.
>>>>>> - Avi created a new branch on avi-heat repo: 17.1-conn-backup that
>>>>>> retries 30 times with 1 second sleep whenever avi API calls run into
>>>>>> ConnectionError exceptions.
>>>>>> - Pushkar updated the LogMeIn's controller and will ask customer to
>>>>>> run some experiments
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Long term:
>>>>>> 1) P9 plans to create multiple tunnels one for each service.
>>>>>> 2) Avi would reduce the neutron/keystone calls as found in EBSCO
>>>>>> tests, and that would help this customer case too. Avi's upcoming release
>>>>>> 17.1.8 will have some optimizations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> praveen
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:55 PM Siva kollipara <siva at avinetworks.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 10am sounds good Jeff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Jason Price <jason at avinetworks.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks, guys.  I'm booked at 10 tomorrow, so won't be able to make
>>>>>>>> this call, but let me know if you need anything prior.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Jeff Darrish <
>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks so much Praveen.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have sent over a calendar invite tomorrow for 10am Pacific.
>>>>>>>>> Johnny Tseng, the Platform9 account manager will kick off the call.
>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I will be out of the office Thursday & Friday, but our
>>>>>>>>> engineering leads Pushkar and Sachin are familiar with the integration at
>>>>>>>>> LogMeIn and can describe our joint milestones to get this working well for
>>>>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *Jeff Darrish*
>>>>>>>>> *Systems Engineer | Platform9 <http://platform9.com>*
>>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com
>>>>>>>>> (404) 317-8344
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Praveen Yalagandula <
>>>>>>>>> ypraveen at avinetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Jeff,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> My schedule is open 9-11 and 1-2 tomorrow.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>> Praveen
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:03 PM Jeff Darrish <
>>>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Jason,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Praveen and Siva -- for LogMeIn Avi integration, our engineering
>>>>>>>>>>> wanted to touch base with you to work through a couple potential changes
>>>>>>>>>>> and ensure we have the right version/fixes in place.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Can you provide a couple day/time slots you are available? I
>>>>>>>>>>> think on our side there is a little time left today, or we can shoot for
>>>>>>>>>>> later this week.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> *Jeff Darrish*
>>>>>>>>>>> *Systems Engineer | Platform9 <http://platform9.com>*
>>>>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com
>>>>>>>>>>> (404) 317-8344
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Jason Price <
>>>>>>>>>>> jason at avinetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey Jeff,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've copied on Praveen and Siva from our engineering team, who
>>>>>>>>>>>> are primarily responsible for Avi's openstack integration.  Can you provide
>>>>>>>>>>>> any additional details on the issues you've run into?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm sure we can pull together a meeting, as well - I'll let
>>>>>>>>>>>> Praveen and Siva chime in on their availability.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Jeff Darrish <
>>>>>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> We have found a couple items related to Avi and Platform9
>>>>>>>>>>>>> integration which are affecting LogMeIn. Our engineering leads would like
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to have a meeting with Avi support (or engineering) to talk through some
>>>>>>>>>>>>> mutual code changes that are needed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> What is the best way to get a conversation going with the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> right Avi folks who cover LogMeIn? Should this go in through front-end
>>>>>>>>>>>>> support?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Jeff Darrish*
>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Systems Engineer | Platform9 <http://platform9.com>*
>>>>>>>>>>>>> jdarrish at platform9.com
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (404) 317-8344
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jason Price
>>>>>>>>>>>> Field Systems Engineer
>>>>>>>>>>>> Avi Networks
>>>>>>>>>>>> 612.770.7428 <(612)%20770-7428>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Jason Price
>>>>>>>> Field Systems Engineer
>>>>>>>> Avi Networks
>>>>>>>> 612.770.7428 <(612)%20770-7428>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jason Price
>>> Field Systems Engineer
>>> Avi Networks
>>> 612.770.7428 <(612)%20770-7428>
>>>
>>
>>
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